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Parasites and Pathogens

Effects On Host Hormones and Behavior

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Nancy E. Beckage

    1. Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Host-Parasite Hormonal Interactions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. New Insights: How Parasites and Pathogens Alter the Endocrine Physiology and Development of Insect Hosts

      • Nancy E. Beckage
      Pages 3-36

    3. The Life History and Development of Polyembryonic Parasitoids

      • Michael R. Strand, Miodrag Grbic’
      Pages 37-56

    4. Schistosome Parasites Induce Physiological Changes in their Snail Hosts by Interfering with Two Regulatory Systems, the Internal Defense System and the Neuroendocrine System

      • Marijke de Jong-Brink, Robert M. Hoek, Wessel Lageweg, August B. Smit
      Pages 57-75

    5. Infection with Echinostoma paraensei (Digenea) Induces Parasite-Reactive Polypeptides in the Hemolymph of the Gastropod Host Biomphalaria glabrata

      • Coen M. Adema, Lynn A. Hertel, Eric S. Loker
      Pages 76-98

    6. The Growth Hormone-Like Factor from Plerocercoids of the Tapeworm Spirometra mansonoides is a Multifunctional Protein

      • C. Kirk Phares
      Pages 99-112

    7. Peptides: An Emerging Force in Host Responses to Parasitism

      • Ian Fairweather
      Pages 113-139

  4. Parasites, Pathogens, and Host Behavior

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Behavioral Abnormalities and Disease Caused by Viral Infections of the Central Nervous System

      • Carolyn G. Hatalski, W. Ian Lipkin
      Pages 201-209

    3. Effects of Hormones on Behavioral Defenses Against Parasites

      • Benjamin L. Hart
      Pages 210-230

    4. How Parasites Alter the Behavior of their Insect Hosts

      • Shelley A. Adamo
      Pages 231-245

    5. Parasites, Fluctuating Asymmetry, and Sexual Selection

      • Michal Polak
      Pages 246-276

    6. Hormones and Sex-Specific Traits: Critical Questions

      • Diana K. Hews, Michael C. Moore
      Pages 277-292

    7. Host Behavior Modification: An Evolutionary Perspective

      • Armand M. Kuris
      Pages 293-315

    8. The Ecology of Parasites in a Salt Marsh Ecosystem

      • Kevin D. Lafferty
      Pages 316-332
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About this book

When Nancy Beckage and I first met in Lynn Riddiford's laboratory at the University of Washington in the mid 1970s, the fields of parasitology, behavior, and endocrinology were thriving and far-flung--disciplines in no serious danger of intersecting. There were rumors that they might have some common ground: Behavioural Aspects of Parasite Transmission (Canning and Wright, 1972) had just emerged, with exciting news not only of the way parasites themselves behave, but also of Machiavellian worms that caused intermediate hosts to shift fundamental responses to light and disturbance, becoming in the process more vulnerable to predation by the next host (Holmes and Bethel, 1972). Meanwhile, biologists such as Miriam Rothschild (see Dedication), G. B. Solomon (1969), and Lynn Riddiford herself (1975) had suggested that the endocrinological rami­ of parasitism might be subtle and pervasive. In general, however, para­ fications sites were viewed as aberrant organisms, perhaps good for a few just-so stories prior to turning our attention once again to real animals. In the decade that followed, Pauline Lawrence (1986a,b), Davy Jones (Jones et al. , 1986), Nancy Beckage (Beckage, 1985; Beckage and Templeton, 1986), and others, including many in this volume, left no doubt that the host-parasite combination in insect systems was physiologically distinct from its unparasitized counterpart in ways that went beyond gross pathology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, USA

    Nancy E. Beckage

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Parasites and Pathogens

  • Book Subtitle: Effects On Host Hormones and Behavior

  • Editors: Nancy E. Beckage

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5983-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-07401-1Published: 31 July 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7742-9Published: 29 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5983-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 338

  • Topics: Ecology, Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography

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