Altered behavior of parasitized killifish increases susceptibility to predation by bird final hosts

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1390-1397

  Lafferty, Kevin D ^a   Kimo Morris, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior modification hypothesis; Bird predation; Differential predation; Effects of parasites on host behavior; Euhaplorchis californiensis; Field experiment; Fundulus; Killifish; Metacercariae; Parasitestrematode

Indexed keywords

HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; KILLIFISH; PARASITE; PREDATION RISK;

FUNDULUS PARVIPINNIS; TREMATODA;

EID: 0030433376     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265536     Document Type: Article

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