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Host Manipulations by Parasites and Viruses

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Editors:
  1. Heinz Mehlhorn

    1. Department of Zoomorphology, Cell Biology and Parasitology, Heinrich Heine University, Universitätsstrasse 1, Düsseldorf, Germany

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  • Explains the hidden power of parasites on human and animal hosts
  • Provides insight into the mechanisms which lead to parasite induced behavioral changes
  • Reviews different examples of host manipulations

Part of the book series: Parasitology Research Monographs (Parasitology Res. Monogr., volume 7)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Heinz Mehlhorn
    Pages 1-1

  3. Parasites: An Own World of Cross Reactions with Their Hosts

    • Heinz Mehlhorn
    Pages 3-27

  4. Trait-Mediated Effects of Parasites on Invader-Native Interactions

    • Melanie J. Hatcher, Jaimie T. A. Dick, Rachel A. Paterson, Mhairi E. Alexander, Mandy Bunke, Alison M. Dunn
    Pages 29-47

  5. Cooperation or Conflict: Host Manipulation in Multiple Infections

    • Nina Hafer, Manfred Milinski
    Pages 49-68

  6. Can Parasites Change Thermal Preferences of Hosts?

    • Elżbieta Żbikowska, Anna Cichy
    Pages 69-90

  7. Host Manipulation by Toxoplasma gondii

    • Jaroslav Flegr
    Pages 91-99

  8. The Brain Worm Story

    • Heinz Mehlhorn
    Pages 101-108

  9. The Bodyguard Phenomenon

    • Heinz Mehlhorn
    Pages 109-115

  10. Remote Control: Parasite Induced Phenotypic Changes in Fish

    • Thomas Kuhn, Regina Klapper, Julian Münster, Dorian D. Dörge, Judith Kochmann, Sven Klimpel
    Pages 117-148

  11. Virus-Induced Behavioural Changes in Insects

    • Yue Han, Monique M. van Oers, Stineke van Houte, Vera I. D. Ros
    Pages 149-174

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 175-192
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About this book

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 parasites influence the host’s behavior by various mechanisms, so that the rate of their transmissions to further hosts becomes considerably enhanced in comparison to that of non-influenced specimens of the same host species. A broad number of recent studies elucidate more and more examples in an extreme spectrum of host-parasite relationships, where successful transmission and /or survival of a parasite inside a host is based on parasite-derived behavioral manipulations of the hosts. In the literature, an increasing numbers of papers appear which prove that these behavioral alterations are based on complicated psychoimmunologic, neuropharmacologic and genomically steered mechanisms. Researchers working in parasitology or behavioral sciences will find this work thought-provoking, instructive and informative.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Zoomorphology, Cell Biology and Parasitology, Heinrich Heine University, Universitätsstrasse 1, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Heinz Mehlhorn

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Host Manipulations by Parasites and Viruses

  • Editors: Heinz Mehlhorn

  • Series Title: Parasitology Research Monographs

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22936-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-22935-5Published: 20 November 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37288-4Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22936-2Published: 09 November 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2192-3671

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-368X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 192

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Parasitology, Behavioral Sciences, Neurosciences

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