Parasites and the Behavior of Animals

By Janice Moore. 2002

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1. Introduction 2. Life Cycles: Blueprints for R0 3. Behavioral Alterations and Parasite Transmission 4. Behavioral Alterations and Avoiding Parasites 5. Behavioral Alterations and the Fitness and Longevity of Infected Hosts 6. Concluding Remarks Appendix: Table Bibliography Index

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology, Ecology, Parasitology

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Social Organization and Parasite Risk in Mammals: Integrating Theory and Empirical Studies (2003, background): “…grooming, preening, and selective foraging have been suggested as parasite avoidance mechanisms in social vertebrates (Hart 1990, Loehle 1995, Moore 2002), although it is important to note that behaviors such as grooming may actually facilitate the transmission of some parasites while…”
Effect of gyrodactylid ectoparasites on host behaviour and social network structure in guppies Poecilia reticulata (2011, background): “It is well documented that parasites can influence the behaviour of their hosts (see Barber et al. 2000 for a review) and that this may increase transmission opportunities (Moore 2002).”
Personality and parasites: sex-dependent associations between avian malaria infection and multiple behavioural traits (2011, background): “Parasites are ubiquitous in animal populations and links between parasite infection and host behaviour can arise through a variety of mechanisms (Moore 2002; Lefèvre and Thomas 2008; Lefèvre et al. 2009).”
Immune challenge reduces reproductive output and growth in a lizard (2006, background): “behaviourally induced fever, Moore 2002 ), but a decrease in body temperature (hypothermia) may also occur if energy reserves required to maintain high metabolic rates are insufficient (Deen & Hutchison 2001).”
Disease ecology meets ecological immunology: understanding the links between organismal immunity and infection dynamics in natural populations (2011, background): “Infected animals can also behave in diverse ways that alter the potential for pathogen transmission, including alterations of foraging behaviour, activity levels, and investment in sexual reproduction (reviewed in Moore 2002).”
The Ecology and Evolution of Insect Baculoviruses (2003, background): “Host Manipulation The manipulation of host behavior by parasites is well studied in vertebrates (Moore 2002), and there is also some information on insect parasitoids (Edwards & Weaver 2001).”
Delay-induced chaos and its possible control in a seasonally forced eco-epidemiological model with fear effect and predator switching (2021, background): “Due to parasite burden, prey becomes more fragile and less dynamic in nature which expose them to be easily accessible by the predator [23].”
Manipulation of fish host by eye flukes in relation to cataract formation and parasite infectivity (2005, background): “Behavioural alterations in infected hosts have been described in several parasite–host interactions (reviewed in Moore 2002), and the ability of parasites to cause such alterations has usually been considered as an evolutionary adaptation to increase parasites’ transmission efficiency.”
Parasite species richness in carnivores: effects of host body mass, latitude, geographical range and population density (2007, background): “Parasites have also been proposed to account for a wide variety of behavioural and morphological traits (Moore, 2002), including sexually selected traits (Hamilton & Zuk, 1982), consumption of specific dietary items (e.”
Shoaling behaviour of fish under parasitism and predation risk (2008, background): “…highly beneficial for trophically transmitted parasites if it increases their susceptibility to predation by target hosts (the next host in the life cycle; Rothschild 1962; Holmes & Bethel 1972), and thus could be considered as a parasite strategy to manipulate its hosts (reviewed by Moore 2002).”
Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites? (2006, background): “Pathogens are most likely to have ecosystem effects when they influence the behavior of the host [14, 43 ], when they reduce the impact of herbivores [44] or make hosts more susceptible to predators [45,46]; these indirect effects coupled with the direct effects on abundance of hosts can have an imp”
Social behavior and the microbiome (2015, background): “While it has long been known that parasites can manipulate host behavior to improve transmission [45], symbiotic”
Selective defecation and selective foraging: Antiparasite behavior in wild ungulates? (2004, background): “…can range from commonplace behaviors that remove or repel parasites such as grooming, fly-repelling and comfort movements (see Hart 1994 and Moore 2002 for review) to fairly complex behaviors that alleviate or prevent infection such as leaf swallowing in chimpanzees (Huffman et al. 1996)…”
Parasite-induced change in host behaviour and susceptibility to predation in an eye fluke–fish interaction (2004, background): “Differences in the behaviour of parasitized and unparasitized animals have been observed in many other parasiteehost interactions (reviewed by Moore 2002), and they have often been assumed to be parasite strategies evolved to enhance transmission.”
Impact of trematodes on host survival and population density in the intertidal gastropod Zeacumantus subcarinatus (2005, neutral): “The influence of parasites on host life-history traits and behaviour has been documented in several studies (Sousa 1983, Curtis 1987, Goater & Holmes 1997, Latham & Poulin 2002, Moore 2002).”
Host traits and parasite species richness in even and odd-toed hoofed mammals, Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla (2006, background): “Another possible explanation is that longer-lived host species invest more in ‘maintenance functions’, including immunological and behavioral anti-parasite defenses (Hart 1990, Moore 2002, Nunn and Altizer 2006), and are thus more effective at reducing parasite infections.”