Parasitism and Host Behaviour

List of contents

Preface, Contributors, Chapter 1. Parasitic relationships, Chapter 2. Pathology and host behaviour, Chapter 3. Physiological alterations during parasitism and their effects on host behaviour, Chapter 4. Parasites and host decision-making, Chapter 5. Parasites and the evolution of host sexual behaviour, Chapter 6. Host behaviour and opportunism in parasite life cycles, Chapter 7. Phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of altered host behaviours: a critical look at the manipulation hypothesis, Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Chapter 8. Human behaviour and the epidemiology of helminth infections: cultural practices and microepidemiology, Chapter 9. Human behaviour and the epidemiology of helminth infections: the role of behaviour in exposure to infection, Chapter 10. Influence of host behaviour on some ectoparasites of birds and mammals

About the author

C F Barnard

Summary

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

Product details

• Assisted by: C F Barnard (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.1990
• EAN: 9780850664980
• ISBN: 978-0-85066-498-0
• No. of pages: 346
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 707 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Microbiology; Microbiology (non-medical), Parasitology (non-medical), SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Microbiology, Animal behaviour, Ethology and animal behaviour