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

• Main Authors: Durkin, Emily S., Luong, Lien T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Artificial selection; evolution of parasitism; infectivity; realized heritability; Macrocheles muscaedomesticae; Drosophila; Stepping Stones; Mite
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.166852; https://doi.org/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...