Hoberg Eric P, Agosta Salvatore J, Boeger Walter A, Brooks Daniel R
US National Parasite Collection, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, BARC East No. 1180, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA.
Center for Environmental Studies and Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA.
Trends Parasitol. 2015 Apr;31(4):128-33. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2014.11.005. Epub 2014 Dec 2.
The field of parasitology contributes to the elucidation of patterns and processes in evolution, ecology, and biogeography that are of fundamental importance across the biosphere, leading to a thorough understanding of biodiversity and varied responses to global change. Foundations from taxonomic and systematic information drive biodiversity discovery and foster considerable infrastructure and integration of research programs. Morphological, physiological, behavioral, life-history, and molecular data can be synthesized to discover and describe global parasite diversity, in a timely manner. In fully incorporating parasitology in policies for adaptation to global change, parasites and their hosts should be archived and studied within a newly emergent conceptual universe (the 'Stockholm Paradigm'), embracing the inherent complexity of host-parasite systems and improved explanatory power to understand biodiversity past, present, and future.
寄生虫学领域有助于阐明进化、生态和生物地理学中的模式与过程，这些模式与过程在整个生物圈中具有至关重要的意义，从而促成对生物多样性以及对全球变化的多样反应的全面理解。分类学和系统学信息所奠定的基础推动了生物多样性的发现，并促进了大量基础设施建设以及研究项目的整合。形态学、生理学、行为学、生活史和分子数据能够综合起来，以便及时发现和描述全球寄生虫的多样性。在将寄生虫学全面纳入适应全球变化的政策过程中，应在一个新出现的概念框架（“斯德哥尔摩范式”）内对寄生虫及其宿主进行存档和研究，该框架涵盖宿主 - 寄生虫系统的内在复杂性，并具有更强的解释力，以理解过去、现在和未来的生物多样性。
