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SUBMITTER: Keesey IW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5559524 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Keesey Ian W IW Koerte Sarah S Khallaf Mohammed A MA Retzke Tom T Guillou Aurélien A Grosse-Wilde Ewald E Buchon Nicolas N Knaden Markus M Hansson Bill S BS
Nature communications 20170816 1
Pathogens and parasites can manipulate their hosts to optimize their own fitness. For instance, bacterial pathogens have been shown to affect their host plants' volatile and non-volatile metabolites, which results in increased attraction of insect vectors to the plant, and, hence, to increased pathogen dispersal. Behavioral manipulation by parasites has also been shown for mice, snails and zebrafish as well as for insects. Here we show that infection by pathogenic bacteria alters the social comm ...[more]