ArticleInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife2015
Host manipulation in the face of environmental changes: Ecological consequences.
Article in International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Evolution and Ecology of Host Manipulation in Helminth Parasites: A Phylogenetic Meta-Analysis.Ecology letters · 2026Pooled it
- Implications of Changing Temperatures on the Growth, Fecundity and Survival of Intermediate Host Snails of Schistosomiasis: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Pooled it
- Prevalence of fish parasites from Lake Hawassa, Ethiopia.PloS one · 2026Article
- Needle in a Haystack: A Droplet Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay to Detect Rare Helminth Parasites Infecting Natural Host Populations.Molecular ecology resources · 2025Article
- Phytoplasma infection renders cranberries more susceptible to above- and belowground insect herbivores.Insect science · 2025Article
- Pomphorhynchus laevis host manipulation regardless of presence of gammarid conspecifics or predator cues.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2025Article
- Hooking the scientific community on thorny-headed worms: interesting and exciting facts, knowledge gaps and perspectives for research directions on Acanthocephala.Parasite (Paris, France) · 2023Article
- Warming can alter host behavior in a similar manner to infection with behavior-manipulating parasites.Oecologia · 2020Article
- Increased temperature has no consequence for behavioral manipulation despite effects on both partners in the interaction between a crustacean host and a manipulative parasite.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Natural infection by the protozoan Leptomonas wallacei impacts the morphology, physiology, reproduction, and lifespan of the insect Oncopeltus fasciatus.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Colour plasticity in response to social context and parasitic infection in a self-fertilizing fish.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Parasite transmission between trophic levels stabilizes predator-prey interaction.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Winning the arms race: host-parasite shared evolutionary history reduces infection risks in fish final hosts.Biology letters · 2018Article
- Thermal Change and the Dynamics of Multi-Host Parasite Life Cycles in Aquatic Ecosystems.Integrative and comparative biology · 2016Article
- Conflicts over host manipulation between different parasites and pathogens: Investigating the ecological and medical consequences.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2016Review
- Sarcoptes scabiei infestation does not alter the stability of ectoparasite communities.Parasites & vectors · 2016Article
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Abstract
Several parasite species, particularly those having complex life-cycles, are known to induce phenotypic alterations in their hosts. Most often, such alterations appear to increase the fitness of the parasites at the expense of that of their hosts, a phenomenon known as "host manipulation". Host manipulation can have important consequences, ranging from host population dynamics to ecosystem engineering. So far, the importance of environmental changes for host manipulation has received little attention. However, because manipulative parasites are embedded in complex systems, with many interacting components, changes in the environment are likely to affect those systems in various ways. Here, after reviewing the ecological importance of manipulative parasites, we consider potential causes and consequences of changes in host manipulation by parasites driven by environmental modifications. We show that such consequences can extend to trophic networks and population dynamics within communities, and alter the ecological role of manipulative parasites such as their ecosystem engineering. We suggest that taking them into account could improve the accuracy of predictions regarding the effects of global change. We also propose several directions for future studies.
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