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

• Main Authors: Durkin, Emily S., Luong, Lien T., Durkin, E. S., Luong, L. T.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Life sciences; medicine and health care; Macrocheles muscaedomesticae; Drosophila; evolution of parasitism; realized heritability; Artificial selection; infectivity; Drosophila hydei; psy; envir; Stepping Stones; Mite
• Online Access: 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...