Host Manipulations by Parasites and Viruses

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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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.

• Behavioral manipulations of hosts
• Host-parasite relations
• Neuropharmacoligical effects
• Parasites influence behaviour
• Psychoneuroimmunologic mechnisms
• host manipulation

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

  Heinz Mehlhorn

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