Biogeographic history of pigeons and doves drives the origin and diversification of their parasitic body lice

Despite their extensive diversity and ecological importance, the history of diversification for most groups of parasitic organisms remains relatively understudied. Elucidating broad macroevolutionary patterns of parasites is challenging, often limited by the availability of samples, genetic resources, and knowledge about ecological relationships with their hosts. In this study, we explore the macroevolutionary history of parasites by focusing on parasitic body lice from doves. Building on extensive knowledge of ecological relationships and previous phylogenomic studies of their avian hosts, we tested specific questions about the evolutionary origins of the body lice of doves, leveraging whole genome data sets for phylogenomics. Specifically, we sequenced whole genomes from 68 samples of dove body lice, including representatives of all body louse genera from 51 host taxa. From these data, we assembled >2,300 nuclear genes to estimate dated phylogenetic relationships among body lice an..., These data are associated with a phylogenomic analysis of individual samples of lice sequenced with whole genome sequencing. The data include voucher photographs of the individual specimens, resulting phylogenetic trees from nuclear and mitochondrial sequences, and relevant input and output files from downstream analyses (historical biogeography, cophylogenetic analysis). , , # Biogeographic history of pigeons and doves drives the origin and diversification of their parasitic body lice

## Description of the data and file structure

\|-- `Biogeography.zip` # Input data and results files from biogeographic analyses of dove body lice in BioGeoBEARS
\| |-- `body_lice_biogeo.txt` # matrix of biogeographic regions formatted for input in BioGeoBEARS
\| |-- `body_lice_mcmctree_og_trimmed.tre` # phylogeny used as input into BioGeoBEARS
\| |-- `restable_AICc_rellike_formatted.txt` # output of biogeographic model assessment from BioGeoBEARS
\|-- `Cophylogeny.zip`
\| |-- `body_lice_jane_input` # Input file for Jane
\| |-- `bodyliceGeo.mow` # Tree and biogeographic information of body lice for MOWGLI
\| |-- `cospeciation_Ratio_cumulative.csv` # Ratio of host switches and cospeciation events to total cumulative speciation events of dove body lice
\| |-- `dovesGeo.mow` # Dated tree and biogeographic information of doves for MOWGLI
\| |-- `mowgli_results.out`...