Dear Evoldir members, thanks a lot for your replies concerning an introducing textbook about host-parasite interaction. Many people asked me to post the results. I summarize them below without any special order. Details for the different books can be found easyly at amazon, a short description is available there for each of these books. Cheers, Robert Kraus Robert Poulin "Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites", 2nd Ed. 2007, Princeton Univ. Press Steven A. Frank, "Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease", Princeton University Press, 2002 Claude Combes - "Parasitism: The Ecology and Evolution of Intimate Interactions (Interspecific Interactions)", University of Chicago Press, 2001 Combes, Claude. 2005. "The Art of Being a Parasite." University of Chicago Press. Hassell. 2000. "The SPATIAL & TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTIONS". Oxford. Hochberg & Ives. 2000. "Parasitoid Population Biology". Princeton. Hawkins. 1994. "Pattern & process in host-parasitoid interactions." Cambridge. Brooks, D. R. and D. A. McLennan. 1993. "Parascript: Parasites and the Language of Evolution." Moore, Janice. 2002. "Parasites and the Behavior of Animals." Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution. Oxford University Press. Page, R. D. M., ed. 2003. "Tangled Trees: Phylogeny, Cospeciation, and Coevolution." University of Chicago Press Thompson, J. N. 2005. "The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution." University of Chicago Press Zimmer, Carl. 2003. Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures."" Arrow Books (Random House), London. Frederic THOMAS, Francois RENAUD and Jean-Francois GUEGAN "Parasitism and Ecosystems", Oxford University Press, 2005 Thompson, "Interaction and Coevolution" Dale H. Clayton and Janice Moore, "Host-Parasite Evolution: General Principles and Avian Models" Hudson et al. "The Ecology of Wildlife Diseases", Oxford University Press (2002) Stearns "Evolution in Health & Disease", Oxford University Press (2002) Collinge "Disease Ecology. Community Structure and Pathogen Dynamics" Oxford University Press (2006) robert.kraus@wur.nl