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This accessible text surveys emerging research into fascinating new connections between animal behavior and the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. Chapters focus on fundamental topics at the interface of animal behavior and parasitism, and authors have been selected to provide a diverse and international perspective.
List of contents
- PART 1: INTRODUCTION
- 1: Vanessa O. Ezenwa, Sonia Altizer, and Richard J. Hall: Animal behavior and parasitism: where have we been, where are we going?
- 2: Dana M. Hawley and Vanessa O. Ezenwa: Parasites, host behavior, and their feedbacks
- PART II: SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
- 3: Baptiste Sadoughi, Simone Anzà, Charlotte Defolie, Virgile Manin, Nadine Müller-Klein, Tatiana Murillo, Markus Ulrich, and Doris Wu: Parasites in a social world: lessons from primates
- 4: Janine Mistrick, Marie L.J. Gilbertson, Lauren A. White, and Meggan E. Craft: Constructing animal networks for parasite transmission inference
- 5: Carl N. Keiser: Collective behavior and parasite transmission
- PART III: MOVEMENT BEHAVIOR
- 6: Orr Spiegel, Nili Anglister, and Miranda M Crafton: Movement data provides insight into feedbacks and heterogeneities in host-parasite interactions
- 7: Richard J. Hall, Sonia Altizer, Stephanie J. Peacock, and Allison K. Shaw: Animal migration and infection dynamics: recent advances and future frontiers
- 8: Hannah R. Meredith and Amy Wesolowski: Seasonal human movement and the consequences for infectious disease transmission
- PART IV: SEXUAL SELECTION AND MATING BEHAVIOR
- 9: Alistair Pirrie, Hettie Chapman, and Ben Ashby: Parasite-mediated sexual selection: to mate or not to mate?
- 10: Rebecca E. Koch and Geoffrey E. Hill: Shared biochemical pathways for ornamentation and immune function: rethinking the mechanisms underlying honest signalling of parasite resistance
- 11: Jamie C. Winternitz and Jessica L. Abbate: The genes of attraction: mating behavior, immunogenetic variation, and parasite resistance
- PART V: PARASITE MODIFICATION OF HOST BEHAVIOR
- 12: Stephanie S. Godfrey and Robert Poulin: Host manipulation by parasites: from individual to collective behavior
- 13: Lauren J. Cator: Altered feeding behaviors in disease vectors
- PART VI: BEHAVIORAL DEFENSES
- 14: Patricia C. Lopes, Susannah S. French, Douglas C. Woodhams, and Sandra A. Binning: Infection avoidance behaviors across vertebrate taxa: patterns, processes, and future directions
- 15: Clémence Poirotte and Marie J. E. Charpentier: Inter-individual variation in parasite avoidance behaviors and its epidemiological, ecological, and evolutionary consequences
- 16: Shaun Davis and Todd Schlenke: Behavioral defenses against parasitoids: genetic and neuronal mechanisms
- 17: Jessica F. Stephenson and James S. Adelman: The behavior of infected hosts: behavioral tolerance, behavioral resilience, and their implications for behavioral competence
- PART VII: EMERGING FRONTIERS
- 18: Sarah Guindre-Parker, Jenny Tung, and Alexander T. Strauss: Emerging frontiers in animal behavior and parasitism: integration across scales
- 19: Emlyn J. Resetarits, Lewis J. Bartlett, Cali A. Wilson, Anna R. Willoughby: Parallels in parasite behavior: the other side of the host-parasite relationship
About the author
Vanessa Ezenwa is a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. She studies interactions between hosts and their parasites from physiological, behavioral, ecological perspectives. She is a senior editor at Ecology letters and President-Elect of the Animal Behavior Society.
Sonia Altizer is a Professor in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. She studies infectious disease ecology and its interface with animal behavior, anthropogenic change, and evolution. Much of her empirical work focuses on monarch butterflies and a protozoan parasite to better understand the consequences of host movement for animal-pathogen interactions.
Richard Hall is an Associate Professor at the Odum School of Ecology and Department of Infectious Diseases at the University of Georgia. He uses mathematical models to study host-parasite interactions and their response to global environmental change, with particular application to migratory animals and behavioral changes associated with urbanization and resource subsidy. He is also an avid birder and wildlife gardener.
Summary
This accessible text surveys emerging research into fascinating new connections between animal behavior and the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. Chapters focus on fundamental topics at the interface of animal behavior and parasitism, and authors have been selected to provide a diverse and international perspective.
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The layout is generally pleasing and the text easy to read. Boxes and figure lighten up the text... everyone remotely interested in animal behaviour will be able to learn something from this book.
