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 fundamental role of parasitism in the evolution of behaviour. The aim is to look broadly at the relationship between parasitism and behaviour from pathology and epidemiology to strategies of exploitation and counter exploitation. In doing so the book will traverse the phylogenetic scale from enteric protozoa and nematodes to colouration and courtship of birds and human cultural traditions.
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