ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2016
Inter- and intraspecific conflicts between parasites over host manipulation.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The Evolution and Ecology of Host Manipulation in Helminth Parasites: A Phylogenetic Meta-Analysis.Ecology letters · 2026Pooled it
- Revealing the genetic mechanisms underpinning the parasite-induced water-seeking behaviour of insects through RNA-seq.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2026Article
- A framework for testing the impact of co-infections on host gut microbiomes.Animal microbiome · 2022Review
- Infection Patterns of Helminths inHelminthologia · 2019Article
- Behavior out of control: Experimental evolution of resistance to host manipulation.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Experimental evolution of parasitic host manipulation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Spatiotemporal and gender-specific parasitism in two species of gobiid fish.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
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- 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
- Body condition reveals hidden correlations between co-infection and behavior in sunfish.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Host manipulation is a common strategy by which parasites alter the behaviour of their host to enhance their own fitness. In nature, hosts are usually infected by multiple parasites. This can result in a conflict over host manipulation. Studies of such a conflict in experimentally infected hosts are rare. The cestode Schistocephalus solidus (S) and the nematode Camallanus lacustris (C) use copepods as their first intermediate host. They need to grow for some time inside this host before they are infective and ready to be trophically transmitted to their subsequent fish host. Accordingly, not yet infective parasites manipulate to suppress predation. Infective ones manipulate to enhance predation. We experimentally infected laboratory-bred copepods in a manner that resulted in copepods harbouring (i) an infective C plus a not yet infective C or S, or (ii) an infective S plus a not yet infective C. An infective C completely sabotaged host manipulation by any not yet infective parasite. An infective S partially reduced host manipulation by a not yet infective C. We hence show experimentally that a parasite can reduce or even sabotage host manipulation exerted by a parasite from a different species.
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