evolutionary relationships between digeneans of the family brachycladiidae odhner, 1905 and their marine mammal hosts: a cophylogenetic study. | cophylogenetic studies examine the congruence between host and parasite phylogenies. there are few studies that quantify the relative contribution of coevolutionary events, i.e. duplication, loss, failure-to-diverge, host-switching and spreading in trophically-transmitted parasites at the marine realm. we addressed this issue in the brachycladiidae, a cosmopolitan digenean family specific to marine mammals. we used, for the first time, distance-based and event-based methods to explicitly test th ... | 2016 | 26721312 |