Host Manipulations by Parasites and Viruses

Host Manipulations by Parasites and Viruses

This edited volume focuses on parasite-host relationships and the behavioral changes parasites may trigger in their hosts. Parasites have developed strategies which enhance their chances to find a host to survive inside its body and to become most easily transmitted to one another. Many of these par...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Springer eBooks
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Mehlhorn, Heinz (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Parasitology Research Monographs,
Subjects:
medicine.
Neurosciences.
Parasitology.
Behavioral Sciences.
Biomedicine.
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22936-2
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Parasites: an own world of cross reactions with their hosts
  • Trait-mediated effects of parasites on invader-native interactions
  • Cooperation or Conflict: Host manipulation in multiple infections
  • Can parasites change thermal preferences of hosts?
  • Host Manipulation by Toxoplasma gondii
  • The brain worm story
  • The bodyguard phenomenon
  • Remote control: parasite induced phenotypic changes in fish
  • Virus-induced behavioural changes in insects.

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