Wildlife diseases: from individuals to ecosystems

DM Tompkins, AM Dunn, MJ Smith… - Journal of Animal …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We review our ecological understanding of wildlife infectious diseases from the individual
host to the ecosystem scale, highlighting where conceptual thinking lacks verification …

The biological effects of antidepressants on the molluscs and crustaceans: a review

PP Fong, AT Ford - Aquatic toxicology, 2014 - Elsevier
Antidepressants are among the most commonly detected human pharmaceuticals in the
aquatic environment. Since their mode of action is by modulating the neurotransmitters …

Parasitism and the evolutionary ecology of animal personality

I Barber, NJ Dingemanse - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The ecological factors responsible for the evolution of individual differences in animal
personality (consistent individual differences in the same behaviour across time and …

Sickness behaviors across vertebrate taxa: proximate and ultimate mechanisms

PC Lopes, SS French… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
There is nothing like a pandemic to get the world thinking about how infectious diseases
affect individual behavior. In this respect, sick animals can behave in ways that are …

Comparing mechanisms of host manipulation across host and parasite taxa

KD Lafferty, JC Shaw - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2013 - journals.biologists.com
Parasites affect host behavior in several ways. They can alter activity, microhabitats or both.
For trophically transmitted parasites (the focus of our study), decreased activity might impair …

Symbiont-mediated protection

ER Haine - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite the fact that all vertically transmitted symbionts sequester resources from their hosts
and are therefore costly to maintain, there is an extraordinary diversity of them in …

Anti-depressants make amphipods see the light

Y Guler, AT Ford - Aquatic toxicology, 2010 - Elsevier
The effects of serotonin altering parasites, serotonin, the anti-depressant fluoxetine, plus two
other highly prescribed pharmaceuticals (carbamazepine and diclofenac) on the behaviour …

Parasites and biological invasions

AM Dunn - Advances in parasitology, 2009 - Elsevier
There is considerable current interest in the role that parasites can play in biological
invasions. This review looks at the fate of parasites during a biological invasion and at their …

[HTML][HTML] Interactive effects of warming and microplastics on metabolism but not feeding rates of a key freshwater detritivore

P Kratina, TJ Watts, DS Green, RL Kordas… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Microplastics are an emerging pollutant of high concern, with their prevalence in the
environment linked to adverse impacts on aquatic organisms. However, our knowledge of …

Invasion of the body snatchers: the diversity and evolution of manipulative strategies in host–parasite interactions

T Lefevre, SA Adamo, DG Biron, D Missé… - Advances in …, 2009 - Elsevier
Parasite‐induced alteration of host behaviour is a widespread transmission strategy among
pathogens. Understanding how it works is an exciting challenge from both a mechanistic …