ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2016
Host behaviour-parasite feedback: an essential link between animal behaviour and disease ecology.
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- Subtle stressors-Strong responses. Consistent negative effects of avian blood parasites on phenotypic and demographic traits across songbirds.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Pooled it
- Gut protozoa of wild rodents - a meta-analysis.Parasitology · 2024Pooled it
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- Host traits and environmental factors shape infection heterogeneity in wild rat-protozoa networks.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Individual variation within parasite communities of endangered African lions.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Relevance of state-behaviour feedbacks for animal welfare.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Parasites alter interaction patterns in fish social networks.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Pathogen-induced alterations in fine-scale movement behaviour predict impaired reproductive success.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Proximate and ultimate causes of pregnancy sickness.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2025Review
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- Animal personality in multiple stressor environments: the evolutionary ecology of among-individual differences in responses to stressor suites.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Elucidating nematode diversity and prevalence in moose across a wide latitudinal gradient using DNA metabarcoding.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2024Article
- The effect of parasitism on boldness and sheltering behaviour in albino and pigmented European catfish (Silurus glanis).Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Improving and Extending STERGM Approximations Based on Cross-Sectional Data and Tie Durations.Journal of computational and graphical statistics : a joint publication of American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Interface Foundation of North America · 2024Article
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Abstract
Animal behaviour and the ecology and evolution of parasites are inextricably linked. For this reason, animal behaviourists and disease ecologists have been interested in the intersection of their respective fields for decades. Despite this interest, most research at the behaviour-disease interface focuses either on how host behaviour affects parasites or how parasites affect behaviour, with little overlap between the two. Yet, the majority of interactions between hosts and parasites are probably reciprocal, such that host behaviour feeds back on parasites and vice versa. Explicitly considering these feedbacks is essential for understanding the complex connections between animal behaviour and parasite ecology and evolution. To illustrate this point, we discuss how host behaviour-parasite feedbacks might operate and explore the consequences of feedback for studies of animal behaviour and parasites. For example, ignoring the feedback of host social structure on parasite dynamics can limit the accuracy of predictions about parasite spread. Likewise, considering feedback in studies of parasites and animal personalities may provide unique insight about the maintenance of variation in personality types. Finally, applying the feedback concept to links between host behaviour and beneficial, rather than pathogenic, microbes may shed new light on transitions between mutualism and parasitism. More generally, accounting for host behaviour-parasite feedbacks can help identify critical gaps in our understanding of how key host behaviours and parasite traits evolve and are maintained.
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