Parasitoid Turns Its Host Into A Bodyguard

Monday, June 9, 2008 - 17:21 in Biology & Nature

A research team offer evidence that behavioral changes of a host are beneficial to the parasite in the field. They studied a moth, the caterpillars of which can be parasitized by an insect parasitoid wasp. Once infected, subversion of the caterpillar normal behavior leads to the protection of the parasite from other predators.

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