New trends in research on parasite host specificity: a survey of current parasitological literature

The main goal of this article is to attract attention of junior scientists interested in evolutionary and ecological parasitology, to some very interesting articles dealing with the methodology of such investigations. The authors review some problems related to terminology used in the studies of host-parasite relationships and then recapitulate the subjects of five articles, in which new indices of the range and characters of hosts specificity are proposed. These are: the article of Caira et al. (2003), Poulin et Mouillot (2003, 2005), Krasnov et al. (2011) and Poulin et al. (2011).