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parasites for about 10  years and had great fun and effort to bring these chapters
together. We therefore hope you will enjoy the ride through the fossil record of various groups of parasites, the usefulness in finding them or their traces still associated
with their hosts, as well as new techniques to further constrain their evolutionary
history.
Erlangen, Germany
Kenneth De Baets
Columbia, MO, USA
John Warren Huntley
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