Parasites and pathogens : effects on host hormones and behavior /
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| Imprint: | New York : Chapman & Hall, c1997. |
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| Description: | xx, 338 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2728860 |
Table of Contents:
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Part I. Host-parasite hormonal interactions: New insights: how parasites and pathogens alter the endocrine physiology and development of insect hosts
- The life history and development of polyembryonic parasitoids
- Schistosome parasites induce physiological changes in their snail host by interfering with two regulatory systems, the internal defense system and the neuroendocrine system
- Infection with Echinostoma Paraensei (Digenea) induces parasite-reactive polypeptides in the hemolymph of the gastropod host biomphalaria glabrata
- The growth hormone-like factor from plerocercoids of the tapeworm Spirometra mansonoides is a multifunctional protein
- Peptides- an emerging force in host responses to parasitism
- Part II. Parasitism and reproduction: Testosterone and immunosuppression in vertebrates: implications for parasite-mediated sexual selection
- Host embryonic and larval castration as a strategy for the individual castrator and the species
- The role of endocrinological versus nutritional influences in mediating reproductive changes in insect host and insect vectors
- Section III. Parasites, pathogens, and host behavior: Behavioral abnormalities and disease caused by viral infections of the central nervous system
- Effects of hormones on behavioral defenses against parasites
- How parasites alter the behavior of their insect hosts
- Parasites, fluctuating asymmetry, and sexual selection
- Hormones an sex-specific traits: critical questions
- Host behavior modification: an evolutinary perspective
- The ecology of parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem
- Index
