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Co-variation between the intensity of behavioural manipulation and parasite development time in an acanthocephalan-amphipod system.
Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Oct 2010
Franceschi N, Bollache L, Cornet S, Bauer A, Motreuil S, Rigaud T
Abstract excerpt
Pomphorhynchus laevis, a fish acanthocephalan parasite, manipulates the behaviour of its gammarid intermediate host to increase its trophic transmission to the definitive host. However, the intensity of behavioural manipulation is variable between individual gammarids and between parasite populat...
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