Host Manipulation by Parasites
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 June 2012
- ISBN 9780199642236
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 249x197x18 mm
- Weight 742 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 40 illustrations, plus an 8 page colour plate section 0
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Short description:
Parasites that manipulate the behaviour of their hosts represent striking examples of adaptation by natural selection. This innovative text provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and challenging review of host manipulation by parasites that assesses the current state of developments in the field and lays out a framework for future research.
MoreLong description:
Parasites that manipulate the behaviour of their hosts represent striking examples of adaptation by natural selection. This field of study is now moving beyond its descriptive phase and into more exciting areas where the processes and patterns of such dramatic adaptations can be better understood. This innovative text provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and challenging review of host manipulation by parasites that assesses the current state of developments in the field and lays out a framework for future research. It also promotes a greater integration of behavioral ecology with studies of host manipulation (behavioral ecology has tended to concentrate mainly on behaviour expressed by free living organisms and is far less focused on the role of parasites in shaping behaviour). To help achieve this, the editors adopt a novel approach of having a prominent expert on behavioral ecology (but who does not work directly on parasites) to provide an afterword to each chapter.
This book gives a stimulating review of host manipulation by parasites. It does so by actually going beyond the natural history to address its evolutionary significance and evolutionary consequences.
Table of Contents:
A history of parasites and hosts, science and fashion
Afterword
Evolutionary routes leading to host manipulation by parasites
Afterword
The strings of the puppet master: How parasites change host behavior
Afterword
Parasites discover behavioral ecology: How to manage one's host in a complex world
Afterword
Manipulation of plant phenotypes by insects and insect-borne pathogens
Afterword
Visual trickery in avian brood parasites
Afterword
Endosymbiotic microbes as adaptive manipulators of arthropod behavior and natural driving sources of host speciation
Afterword
Parasites and the superorganism
Afterword
Ecological consequences of manipulative parasites
Afterword
Applied aspects of host manipulation by parasites
Afterword
Behavioral manipulation outside the world of parasites
Afterword
Index
