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Parasitism and Host Behaviour book cover

1st Edition

Parasitism and Host Behaviour

Edited By C F Barnard Copyright 1990
346 Pages
by CRC Press

346 Pages
by CRC Press
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Recent ideas and experimental studies suggest that the relationship between parasitism and host behaviour has been a powerful shaping force in the evolution not only of behaviour patterns themselves but, through them, of morphology and population and community dynamics. This book brings together recent work across the disciplines of parasitology and animal behaviour which is revealing the... Read more

Preface

Contributors

Parasitic relationships

C.J. Barnard

Pathology and host behaviour

J.C. Holmes and S. Zohar

Physiological alterations during parasitism and their effects on host behaviour

S. N. Thompson

Parasites and host decision-making

M. Milinski

Parasites and the evolution of host sexual behaviour

A. F. Read

Host behaviour and opportunism in parasite life cycles

R. C. Tinsley

Phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of altered host behaviours: a critical look at the manipulation hypothesis

J. Moore and N. J. Gotelli

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Human behaviour and the epidemiology of helminth infections: cultural practices and mircroepidemiology

G. S. Nelson

Human behaviour and the epidemiology of helminth infections: the role of behaviour in exposure to infection

D. A. P. Bundy and U. J. Blumenthal

Influence of host behaviour on some ectoparasites of birds and mammals

M. D. Murray

Biography

C F Barnard

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