Humans have lived from equator to poles for millennia but are now increasingly intruding
into the wild spaces of other species and steadily extruding ourselves from our own wild …

Research on the microbiome and its interaction with various host organs, including the
brain, is increasingly gaining momentum. With more evidence establishing a comprehensive …

Parasites may manipulate host behavior to increase the odds of transmission or to reach the
proper environment to complete their life cycle. 1, 2 Members of the phylum Nematomorpha …

Nematomorph parasites manipulate crickets to enter streams where the parasites
reproduce. These manipulated crickets become a substantial food subsidy for stream fishes …

Making the appropriate responses to predation risk is essential for the survival of an
organism; however, the underlying mechanisms are still largely unknown. Here, we find that …

Parasites are ubiquitous in natural systems and ecosystem‐level effects should be
proportional to the amount of biomass or energy flow altered by the parasites. Here we …

The taxon Nematomorpha, commonly known as horsehair worms, is a taxon including at
present about 350 species of animals with an interesting life cycle including a parasitic and …

Many true parasites and parasitoids modify the behaviour of their host, and these changes
are thought to be to the benefit of the parasites. However, field tests of this hypothesis are …

The study of the adaptive manipulation of animal behavior by parasites is entering very
exciting times. Collectively the field has moved from its important and instructional natural …

Parasites are increasingly recognized as integral members of ecological communities, but
their ecological effects remain less clear. Here, I propose that, to uncover the unique role of …