ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2019
A molecular war: convergent and ontogenetic evidence for adaptive host manipulation in related parasites infecting divergent hosts.
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- Mining the Proteome ofAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- Host Manipulation, Gene Editing, and Non-Traditional Model Organisms: A New Frontier for Behavioral Research?Frontiers in insect science · 2022Article
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- Viscoelasticity Acts as a Marker for Tumor Extracellular Matrix Characteristics.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Review
- When fiction becomes fact: exaggerating host manipulation by parasites.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Genetic Underpinnings of Host Manipulation byG3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Mermithids (phylum Nematoda) and hairworms (phylum Nematomorpha) somehow drive their arthropod hosts into water, which is essential for the worms' survival after egression. The mechanisms behind this behavioural change have been investigated in hairworms, but not in mermithids. Establishing a similar mechanistic basis for host behavioural change between these two distantly related parasitic groups would provide strong convergent evidence for adaptive manipulation and insight into how these parasites modify and/or create behaviour. Here, we search for this convergence, and also contrast changes in physiology between hosts infected with immature and mature mermithids to provide the first ontogenetic evidence for adaptive manipulation by disentangling host response and pathology from the parasite's apparent manipulative effects. We used SWATH-mass spectrometry on brains of
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