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...

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.