<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jana Martinů</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Václav Hypša</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stefka, J</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Flexibility of co-evolutionary patterns in ectoparasite populations: genetic structure and diversity in&lt;i&gt;Apodemus&lt;/i&gt;mice and their lice</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dispersal</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evolution</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genetic diversity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">isolation by distance</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/065060v1</style></url></web-urls></urls><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;jats p=&quot;&quot;&gt;Host-parasite co-evolution belongs among the major processes governing evolution of biodiversity on the global scale. Numerous studies performed at inter-specific level revealed variety of patterns from strict co-speciation to lack of co-divergence and frequent host-switching, even in species tightly linked to their hosts. To explain these observations and formulate ecological hypotheses, we need to acquire better understanding to parasites&amp;rsquo; population genetics and dynamics, and their main determinants. Here, we analyse the impact of co-evolutionary processes on genetic diversity and structure of parasite populations, using a model composed of the louse&lt;jats italic=&quot;&quot;&gt;Polyplax serrata&lt;/jats&gt;and its hosts, mice of the genus&lt;jats italic=&quot;&quot;&gt;Apodemus&lt;/jats&gt;, collected from several dozens of localities across Europe. We use mitochondrial DNA sequences and microsatellite data to describe the level of genealogical congruence between hosts and parasites and to assess genetic diversity of the populations. We also explore links between the genetic assignment of the parasite and its host affiliation, and test the prediction that populations of the parasite possessing narrower host specificity show deeper pattern of population structure and lower level of genetic diversity as a result of limited dispersal and smaller effective population size. We demonstrate an overall complexity of the co-evolutionary processes and their variability even among closely related lineages of the parasites. In the analysis of several sympatric parasite populations, we find strong evidence for the link between the width of host specificity and genetic diversity of parasites.&lt;/jats&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is a preprint verion of the published version title: &lt;strong&gt;Host specificity driving genetic structure and diversity in ectoparasite populations: Coevolutionary patterns in &lt;em&gt;Apodemus&lt;/em&gt; mice and their lice&lt;/strong&gt; see https://phthiraptera.myspecies.info/node/94479, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4424, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.4424&lt;/p&gt;
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