Data from: Experimental evolution of infectious behaviour in a facultative ectoparasite ...

• Main Authors: Durkin, Emily S., Luong, Lien T.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2017
• Subjects: Macrocheles muscaedomesticae; evolution of parasitism; realized heritability; Artificial selection; infectivity; Drosophila hydei; Stepping Stones; Mite
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9p0nm; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.9p0nm

Parasitic lifestyles have evolved many times in animals, but how such life-history strategies evolved from free-living ancestors remains a great puzzle. Transitional symbiotic strategies, such as facultative parasitism, are hypothesized evolutionary stepping-stones towards obligate parasitism. Howev...