Parasite-induced change in host behavior of a freshwater snail: Parasitic manipulation or byproduct of infection?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 234-241

  Levri, Edward P ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Seton Hill College   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging; Host beharvior; Microphallus; Parasitism; Potamopyrgus antipodarum; Snails; Trematodes

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; PARASITISM; SNAIL;

ANIMALIA; BASOMMATOPHORA; GASTROPODA; MICROPHALLUS; MOLLUSCA; POTAMOPYRGUS ANTIPODARUM; TREMATODA;

EID: 0032970162     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/10.3.234     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Bethel WM, Holmes JC, 1973. Altered evasive behaviour and responses to light in amphipods harboring acanthocephalan cystacanths. J Parasitol 59:945-956.
2. Bethel WM, Holmes JC, 1974. Correlation of development of altered evasive behaviour in Gammarus lacustris (Amphipoda) harboring cystacanths of Polymorphus paradoxus (Acanthocephala) with the infectivity to the definitive host. J Parasitai 60:272-274.
3. Curtis LA, 1985. The influence of sex and trematode parasites on carrion response of the estuarine snail Ilyanassa obsoleta. Biol Bull 169:377-390.
4. Dobson AP, 1988. The population biology of parasite-induced changes in host behaviour. Q Rev Biol 63:139-165.
5. Haynes A, Taylor BJR, 1984. Food finding and food preference in Potamopyrgus jenkinsi (E. A. Smith) (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Arch Hydrobiol 100:479-491.
6. Holmes JC, Bethel WM, 1972. Modification of intermediate host behaviour by parasites. In: Behavioural aspects of parasite transmission (Canning EU, Wright CA, eds). New York: Academic Press; 123-149.
7. Holmes JC, Zohar S, 1990. Pathology and host behaviour. In: Parasitism and host behaviour (Barnard CJ, Behnke JM, eds). London: Taylor and Francis; 34-63.
8. Hurd H, Fogo S, 1991. Changes induced by Hymenolepis diminuta (Cestoda) in the behaviour of the intermediate host Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera). Can J Zool 69:2291-2294.
9. Jellyman DJ, 1989. Diet of two species of freshwater eel (Anguilla spp.) in Lake Pounui, New Zealand. NZ J Mar Freshwater Res 23: 1-10.
10. Jokela J, Lively CM, 1995. Spatial variation in infection by digenetic trematodes in a population of freshwater snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum). Oecologia 103:509-517.
11. Levri EP, 1998. The influence of non-host predators on parasite-induced behavioral changes in a freshwater snail. Oikos 81:531-537.
12. Levri EP, in press. Perceived predation risk, parasitism, and the foraging behavior of a freshwater snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum). Can J Zool.
13. Levri EP, Lively CM, 1996. The effects of size, reproductive condition, and parasitism on foraging behaviour in a freshwater snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum. Anim Behav 51:891-901.
14. Lively CM, 1987. Evidence from a New Zealand snail for the maintenance of sex by parasitism. Nature 328:519-521.
15. McCarter, H. 1986. Food and energy in the diet of brown and rainbow trout from Lake Benmore, New Zealand. NZe J Mar Freshwater Res 20:551-559.
16. McDowall RM, 1990. New Zealand freshwater fishes: a natural history and guide. Wellington, New Zealand: Heinemann Reed.
17. Moore J, Gotelli NJ, 1990. A phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of altered host behaviours: a critical look at the manipulation hypothesis. In: Parasitism and host behaviour (Barnard CJ, Behnke JM, eds). London: Taylor and Francis; 193-233.
18. Moore J, Lasswell J, 1986. Altered behavior in isopods (Armadillidium vulgare) infected with the nematode Dispharynx nasuta. J Parasitol 72:186-189.
19. Poulin R, 1994. Meta-analysis of parasite-induced behavioural changes. Anim Behav 48:137-146.
20. Poulin R, Curtis MA, Rau ME, 1992. Effects of Eubothrium salvelini (Cestoda) on the behaviour of Cyclops vernalis (Copepoda) and its susceptibility to fish predators. Parasitology 105:265-271.
21. SAS Institute, 1990. SAS/STAT user's guide, version 6, vol. 2. Cary, North Carolina: SAS Institute Inc.
22. Talbot JM, Ward JC, 1987. Macroinvertebrates associated with aquatic macrophytes in Lake Alexandrina, New Zealand. NZ J Mar Freshwater Res 21:199-213.
23. Tierney JF, Huntingford FA, Crompton DWT, 1993. The relationship between infectivity of Schistocephalus solidus (Cestoda) and antipredator behaviour of its intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Anim Behav 46:603-605.
24. Winterbourn MJ, 1970. The New Zealand species of Potamopyrgus (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Malacologia 10:283-321.
25. Winterbourn MJ, 1973. Larval Trematoda parasitizing the New Zealand species of Potamopyrgus (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Mauri Ora 2:17-30.
26. Winterbourn MJ, Fegley A, 1989. Effects of nutrient enrichment and grazing on periphyton assemblages in some spring-fed, South Island streams. NZ Nat Sci 16:57-65.