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Parasites and Pathogens - Effects On Host Hormones and Behavior (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
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Parasites and Pathogens - Effects On Host Hormones and Behavior (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
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When Nancy Beckage and I first met in Lynn Riddiford's laboratory
at the University of Washington in the mid 1970s, the fields of
parasitology, behavior, and endocrinology were thriving and
far-flung--disciplines in no serious danger of intersecting. There
were rumors that they might have some common ground: Behavioural
Aspects of Parasite Transmission (Canning and Wright, 1972) had
just emerged, with exciting news not only of the way parasites
themselves behave, but also of Machiavellian worms that caused
intermediate hosts to shift fundamental responses to light and
disturbance, becoming in the process more vulnerable to predation
by the next host (Holmes and Bethel, 1972). Meanwhile, biologists
such as Miriam Rothschild (see Dedication), G. B. Solomon (1969),
and Lynn Riddiford herself (1975) had suggested that the
endocrinological rami of parasitism might be subtle and pervasive.
In general, however, para fications sites were viewed as aberrant
organisms, perhaps good for a few just-so stories prior to turning
our attention once again to real animals. In the decade that
followed, Pauline Lawrence (1986a, b), Davy Jones (Jones et al.,
1986), Nancy Beckage (Beckage, 1985; Beckage and Templeton, 1986),
and others, including many in this volume, left no doubt that the
host-parasite combination in insect systems was physiologically
distinct from its unparasitized counterpart in ways that went
beyond gross pathology."
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