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| Author | : David P. Hughes |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2012-06-07 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0199642230 |
Parasites that manipulate the behaviour of their hosts represent striking examples of adaptation by natural selection. This text provides an authoritative review of host manipulation by parasites that assesses developments in the field and lays out a framework for future research.
| Author | : Heinz Mehlhorn |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2015-11-09 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 3319229362 |
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.
| Author | : Allen J. Romano |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2019-10-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110672820 |
Building upon the explosion of recent work on mythography, contributions to this volume direct attention to less frequently explored questions of how ancient poets, historians, and philosophers themselves adopted and adapted the work of mythographers. Study of the way that mythographers and their contemporaries take on positions of, alternately, “host” or “parasite” in relation to the other exposes the richness mythographic practice and the roles that mythographers played in the evolving Greco-Roman discourse of myth. From, among others, the seeds of mythographic discourse in Pindar and Plato, to the mythography of the Peripatics, the in-between mythography of Diodorus Siculus, and the “mythographic topography” of Pausanias, this volume invites a reappraisal of the role that mythography played at every stage of Greek thought about myth. Through contributions that explore both mythographers’ distinctive style of studying myth to other contributions that focus primarily on the how and why of non-mythographers’ use of mythographic techniques, what emerges is a picture of mythography that broadens our conception of mythography while at the same time inviting scholars to seek out more such echoes of mythographic discourse in the work of poets, historians, philosophers at large.
| Author | : Serge Morand |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2010-07 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0199561346 |
This edited volume demonstrates how the latest developments in biogeography (for example in phylogenetics, macroecology, and geographic information systems) can be applied to studies in the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions in order to integrate spatial patterns with ecological theory.
| Author | : Greg Felton |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 532 |
| Release | : 2020-04-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
The U.S. republic founded in 1787 bears no resemblance to the anti-democratic police state that has declared war on its citizens, and provokes needless wars in the Middle East at the behest of Israel. At the center of it all is the parasitic control of the Israel Lobby on the U.S. government. Beginning with the presidency of Harry Truman and continuing into the Trump administration, The Host and The Parasite shows how The Lobby, evangelical Christians and neo-conservatives rode to power, especially after 1980, and proceeded to turn the United States into Israel's willing executioner.
| Author | : Claude Combes |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 743 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0226114465 |
In Parasitism, Claude Combes explores the fascinating adaptations parasites have developed through their intimate interactions with their hosts. He begins with the biology of parasites—their life cycles, habitats, and different types of associations with their hosts. Next he discusses genetic interactions between hosts and parasites, and he ends with a section on the community ecology of parasites and their role in the evolution of their hosts. Throughout the book Combes enlivens his discussion with a wealth of concrete examples of host-parasite interactions.
| Author | : Scott Gardner |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 2021-06-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781609622053 |
Parasites are organisms that live inside or on another species, called the host. Parasites depend on their hosts for food and a place to live. They may harm the host in small or large ways. Parasitism is the most common mode of life on Earth. Humans, other animals, and all plants have parasites, usually two or more kinds. Even parasites can have parasites. There are millions of species of parasites, and scientists discover new ones every day. Parasite specimens are stored in museums all around the world. One of the world's largest collections is in the H. W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology at the University of Nebraska State Museum.
| Author | : Janice Moore |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2002-01-31 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 019534913X |
When a parasite invades an ant, does the ant behave like other ants? Maybe not-and if it doesn't, who, if anyone, benefits from the altered behaviors? The parasite? The ant? Parasites and the Behavior of Animals shows that parasite-induced behavioral alterations are more common than we might realize, and it places these alterations in an evolutionary and ecological context. Emphasizing eukaryotic parasites, the book examines the adaptive nature of behavioral changes associated with parasitism, exploring the effects of these changes on parasite transmission, parasite avoidance, and the fitness of both host and parasite. The behavioral changes and their effects are not always straightforward. To the extent that virulence, for instance, is linked to parasite transmission, the evolutionary interests of parasite and host will diverge, and the current winner of the contest to maximize reproductive rates may not be clear, or, for that matter, inevitable. Nonetheless, by affecting susceptibility, host/parasite lifespan and fecundity, and transmission itself, host behavior influences parameters that are basic to our comprehension of how parasites invade host populations, and fundamentally, how parasites evolve. Such an understanding is important for a wide range of scientists, from ecologists and parasitologists to evolutionary, conservation and behavioral biologists: The behavioral alterations that parasites induce can subtly and profoundly affect the distribution and abundance of animals.
| Author | : Theobald Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2012-06-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781258419943 |
