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Conflicts over host manipulation between different parasites and pathogens: Investigating the ecological and medical consequences.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The Evolution and Ecology of Host Manipulation in Helminth Parasites: A Phylogenetic Meta-Analysis.Ecology letters · 2026Pooled it
- Juvenile agile frogs spatially avoid ranavirus-infected conspecifics.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Parasite-mediated predation determines infection in a complex predator-prey-parasite system.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Opposing life history strategies allow grass shrimp parasites to avoid a conflict of interest.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Insect fungal pathogens secrete a cell wall-associated glucanase that acts to help avoid recognition by the host immune system.PLoS pathogens · 2023Article
- Behavior out of control: Experimental evolution of resistance to host manipulation.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Interactions between two parasites of brown trout (Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Viral infections in fire ants lead to reduced foraging activity and dietary changes.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
When parasites have different interests in regard to how their host should behave this can result in a conflict over host manipulation, i.e. parasite induced changes in host behaviour that enhance parasite fitness. Such a conflict can result in the alteration, or even complete suppression, of one parasite's host manipulation. Many parasites, and probably also symbionts and commensals, have the ability to manipulate the behaviour of their host. Non-manipulating parasites should also have an interest in host behaviour. Given the frequency of multiple parasite infections in nature, potential conflicts of interest over host behaviour and manipulation may be common. This review summarizes the evidence on how parasites can alter other parasite's host manipulation. Host manipulation can have important ecological and medical consequences. I speculate on how a conflict over host manipulation could alter these consequences and potentially offer a new avenue of research to ameliorate harmful consequences of host manipulation.
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