... the behavioral changes that vertebrate animals experience following infection. We then compare and contrast the physiological mechanisms responsible for generating these sickness behaviors across different taxa. Bacteria Parasite Pathogen Infection Diseases Sickness behavior Fever Cytokines...

...Nicholas C. Wu; Rebecca L. Cramp; Michel E. B. Ohmer; Craig E. Franklin ABSTRACT Chytridiomycosis, a lethal fungal skin disease of amphibians, fatally disrupts ionic and osmotic homeostasis. Infected amphibians increase their skin shedding rate (sloughing) to slow pathogen growth, but the sloughing...

.... ceranae , a pathogen that resides in the midgut, affects the brain of the honey bee. We focused on examining odor learning and memory performance in the laboratory. Odor learning and memory are necessary for successful foraging and involve the coordination of several areas of the insect brain, including...

... of L. boulardi females. Their presence has been correlated to the development of superparasitic behavior by the infected parasitoid wasps( Varaldi et al., 2006 ). L. boulardi-17 , is also a highly virulent and pathogenic wasp strain that produces a variety of products including VLPs in its venom...

... is to stimulate actin nucleation and force production at the leading edge of motile cells. What is now clear is that Arp2/3-complex-mediated force production drives many intracellular movements, including movement of bacterial pathogens in infected host cells, internalization of extracellular materials via...