ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2012
Infectious personalities: behavioural syndromes and disease risk in larval amphibians.
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- Parasite-induced plasticity in host social behaviour depends on sex and susceptibility.Biology letters · 2019Article
- Personality Influences Risk of Parasitism in Fish.Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections · 2019Article
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- Does exploratory behavior or activity in a wild mouse explain susceptibility to virus infection?Current zoology · 2018Article
- Exposure to a cyanobacterial toxin increases larval amphibian susceptibility to parasitism.Parasitology research · 2018Article
- Behavioural phenotypes predict disease susceptibility and infectiousness.Biology letters · 2016Article
- Does personality affect premating isolation between locally-adapted populations?BMC evolutionary biology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Behavioural consistency or predictability through time and/or different contexts ('syndromes' or 'personality types') is likely to have substantial influence on animal life histories and fitness. Consequently, there is much interest in the forces driving and maintaining various syndromes. Individual host behaviours have been associated with susceptibility to parasitism, yet the role of pre-existing personality types in acquiring infections has not been investigated experimentally. Using a larval amphibian-trematode parasite model system, we report that tadpoles generally showed consistency in their activity level in response to both novel food and parasite exposure. Not only were individual activity level and exploration in the novel food context correlated with each other and with anti-parasite behaviour, all three were significant predictors of host parasite load. This is the first empirical demonstration that host behaviours in other contexts are related to behaviours mitigating infection risk and, ultimately, host parasite load. We suggest that this system illustrates how reliably high levels of activity and exploratory behaviour in different contexts might maximize both energy acquisition and resistance to trematode parasites. Such benefits could drive selection for the behavioural syndrome seen here owing to the life histories and ecological circumstances typical of wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) larvae.
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