Host Manipulations by Parasites and Viruses

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mehlhorn, Heinz (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Parasitology Research Monographs, 7
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Parasitology.; Behavioral sciences.; Biomedicine.; Behavioral Sciences.

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...