title: Parasite co-structure: broad and local scale approaches.
abstract: A co-structure study is a comparison of demographic and/or genetic structure between two or more species. Such a comparative analysis among a parasite and its host(s) or among multiple parasite species is useful to elucidate factors that shape genetic variation within and among parasite populations. I provide a brief review of how co-structure studies in parasite systems can be used to address ecological, evolutionary, and epidemiological questions. Subjects that can be addressed with parasite costructure studies range from broad-scale analyses that compare phylogeographical patterns to local scale analyses that examine among host transmission within a host population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research. P.O. Box 760549, San Antonio, Texas 78245-0549, USA. ccriscione@mail.bio.tamu.edu
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Criscione
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics; D051456:Gene Flow / Q000235:genetics; D005787:Gene Frequency; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005828:Genetics, Population; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D010271:Parasites / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial