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Non-Specific Manipulation of Gammarid Behaviour by P. minutus Parasite Enhances Their Predation by Definitive Bird Hosts

Trophically-transmitted parasites often change the phenotype of their intermediate hosts in ways that increase their vulnerability to definitive hosts, hence favouring transmission. As a “collateral damage”, manipulated hosts can also become easy prey for non-host predators that are dead ends for th...

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Autores principales: Jacquin, Lisa, Mori, Quentin, Pause, Mickaël, Steffen, Mélanie, Medoc, Vincent
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4084987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25000519
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101684