2. Ancient Mariners Recent Stowaways:
the coevolution of seabirds their lice
Vincent S. Smith Roderic D.M. Page
Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology
Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences
Graham Kerr Building
University of Glasgow
Scotland
3. Parasites… ancient associates
or recent acquisitions?
time
Cospeciation Serial colonisation
Extinction Recent colonisation
Host Time is
Parasite important!
Diversification by
In situ radiation
host switching