1st Edition

Parasitism and Host Behaviour

Edited By C F Barnard Copyright 1990

    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