Changes in host behaviour caused by immature larvae of the eye fluke: evidence supporting the predation suppression hypothesis

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1723-1730

  Gopko, Mikhail ^a   Mikheev, Victor N ^a   Taskinen, Jouni ^b  

^a SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diplostomum; Fish behaviour; Host parasite interaction; Immature parasites; Parasitic manipulations; Rainbow trout

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FLATWORM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LARVA; PARASITE; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SALMONID; THEORETICAL STUDY; VULNERABILITY;

DIPLOSTOMUM; DIPLOSTOMUM PSEUDOSPATHACEUM; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PISCES; TREMATODA;

EID: 84941316481     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-015-1984-z     Document Type: Article

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