ArticleBehavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
An experimental conflict of interest between parasites reveals the mechanism of host manipulation.
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- The Evolution and Ecology of Host Manipulation in Helminth Parasites: A Phylogenetic Meta-Analysis.Ecology letters · 2026Pooled it
- The Dominance of Coinfecting Parasites' Indirect Genetic Effects on Host Traits.The American naturalist · 2024Article
- Metabolism and immune responses of striped hamsters to ectoparasite challenges: insights from transcriptomic analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Article
- Host-specific monogeneans parasitizing freshwater fish: The ecology and evolution of host-parasite associations.Parasite (Paris, France) · 2024Review
- Adaptive host responses to infection can resemble parasitic manipulation.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- How cunning is the puppet-master? Cestode-infected fish appear generally fearless.Parasitology research · 2022Article
- A Stresipteran parasite extends the lifespan of workers in a social wasp.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Schistocephalus parasite infection alters sticklebacks' movement ability and thereby shapes social interactions.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Brain-encysting trematodes (Biology open · 2020Article
- Physiological condition of Eastern Baltic cod,Conservation physiology · 2020Article
- Consequences of eye fluke infection on anti-predator behaviours in invasive round gobies in Kalmar Sound.Parasitology research · 2017Article
- 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
- Inter- and intraspecific conflicts between parasites over host manipulation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Article
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Abstract
Parasites can increase their host's predation susceptibility. It is a long-standing puzzle, whether this is caused by host manipulation, an evolved strategy of the parasite, or by side effects due to, for example, the parasite consuming energy from its host thereby changing the host's trade-off between avoiding predation and foraging toward foraging. Here, we use sequential infection of three-spined sticklebacks with the cestode
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