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Interestingly, a form of cheating has been documented at the inter- specific level: it appears that some non-manipulative parasi ...

theoretical explorations remain mostly untested to this date. At present, our knowledge of the phenomenon of host manipulation b ...

spp.) as intermediate hosts and the birds that feed on them as definitive hosts. Both parasites induce a very similar photophili ...

Mechanisms of Manipulation Surely one of the most convincing pieces of evidence that a parasite is truly manipulating the behavi ...

but we only know how these changes are mediated in a few systems. Recent trends in behavioural ecology suggest that functional a ...

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Parasite Manipulation of Vector Behaviour Parasite Manipulation of 13 Vector Behaviour J.G.C. Hamilton and H. Hurd Centre for Ap ...

Mechanical transmission is, in effect, passive and no opportunity is created for the parasite or pathogen to interact with the v ...

maintenance metabolism, and blood meals, which will increase reproduc- tive output but may shorten lifespan (Koella, 1999). This ...

True vector manipulation will occur via an extension of the pheno- type of the parasite (Dawkins, 1982, 1990) such that manipula ...

many taxa are known to adversely affect the egg production of their vectors (Hurd, 1990), studies that provide data with which t ...

The appetitive search After emergence, or after taking a blood meal, an adult female mosquito goes through a latent period when ...

However, the effect may be inferred from experiments designed to deter- mine the effect of infection on activity levels, althoug ...

between studies conducted on natural and non-natural combinations of vectors and parasites. For the purposes of this review, we ...

Attraction of a vector to a host depends on two separate factors: one is the inherent attractiveness of the host and the other i ...

P. falciparumand, for over 80% of the infected population, gameto- cytaemia was under 0.0016% (Burkotet al., 1989). Burkotet al. ...

were recently infected were no more attractive than uninfected mice; however, after 4 days, infected mice were significantly mor ...