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Host Manipulations by Parasites and Viruses

Heinz Mehlhorn (Herausgeber)

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XII, 192 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-22935-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Heinz Mehlhorn ist Professor für Parasitologie. Von 1991 bis 1995 war er Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Parasitologie wie auch der Weltgesellschaft für Protozoologie. Mehrere Gastprofessuren und Forschungsexpeditionen haben ihn nach Afrika, Südamerika und Asien geführt. Im Jahre 2000 nahm er an der Jahrtausendexpedition des Alfred-Wegener-Instituts für Polarforschung in die Antarktis teil. Mehlhorn zählt zu den angesehensten Parasitologen in Deutschland und ist durch zahlreiche Fernsehbeiträge über Parasiten und ihre Bekämpfung einem breiten Publikum bekannt.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.11.2015
Reihe/Serie	Parasitology Research Monographs
Zusatzinfo	XII, 192 p. 61 illus., 54 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Mikrobiologie / Infektologie / Reisemedizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Mikrobiologie / Immunologie
Schlagworte	Behavioral manipulations of hosts • Behavioral Sciences • Biomedical and Life Sciences • host manipulation • Host-parasite relations • Neuropharmacoligical effects • Neurosciences • Parasites influence behaviour • Parasitology • Psychoneuroimmunologic mechnisms
ISBN-10	3-319-22935-4 / 3319229354
ISBN-13	978-3-319-22935-5 / 9783319229355
Zustand	Neuware