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Facultative virulence: a strategy to manipulate host behaviour?

Behavioural processes - 1 Mar 2006

Ponton Fleur, Biron David G, Moore Janice, Møller Anders P, Thomas Frédéric

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Examples of behavioural manipulation by parasites are numerous, but the processes underlying these changes are not well characterized. From an evolutionary point of view, behavioural changes in infected hosts have often been interpreted as illustrations of the extended phenotype concept, in which genes in one organism (the parasite) have phenotypic effects on another organism (the host). Here, we approach the...

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PMID: 16406372
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2005.10.005

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