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Host Manipulations by Parasites and Viruses
This edited volume focuses on parasite-host relationships and the behavioral changes parasites may trigger in their hosts. Parasites have developed strategies which enhance their chances to find a host to survive inside its body and to become most easily transmitted to one another. Many of these par...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2015. |
| Colección: | Parasitology Research Monographs,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Parasites: an own world of cross reactions with their hosts
- Trait-mediated effects of parasites on invader-native interactions
- Cooperation or Conflict: Host manipulation in multiple infections
- Can parasites change thermal preferences of hosts?
- Host Manipulation by Toxoplasma gondii
- The brain worm story
- The bodyguard phenomenon
- Remote control: parasite induced phenotypic changes in fish
- Virus-induced behavioural changes in insects.