Host Manipulation by Parasites
Edited by David P. Hughes, Jacques Brodeur, and Frederic Thomas
Author Information
David Hughes is Assistant Professor at Penn State University (dual appointment to the Department of Entomology and the Department of Biology). His work has mostly focused on the behavior of social insects (wasps and ants) when infected by parasites. He has also collaborated extensively with Fred Thomas on the Hairworms system of cricket manipulation. He has published more than 32 papers in leading international journals including: Nature, TREE, Current Biology, American Naturalist, Biology Letters, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. In 2008 he edited a book for OUP with Patrizia D'Ettorre (P. D'Ettorre & D.P. Hughes (2008) Sociobiology of Communication. Oxford University Press).
Trained as experimental and theoretical ecologist, Jacques Brodeur is a full professor at the University of Montreal, Institut de Recherche en Biologie Vegetale, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Biocontrol. For the past 18 years, he has studied the biology and ecology of natural enemies used for biological control of arthropod pests. A long-term goal of his research is to identify the governing ecological principles and mechanisms of multispecies interactions within arthropod communities, and to apply these principles to develop reliable and predictive strategies to best take advantage of biological control agents. He has published a large number of papers on host-parasitoid relationships, including host manipulation.
Frederic Thomas is Directeur de Recherche at CNRS with a well established expertise in the field of host-parasite interactions, and especially host manipulation. He is leading a team entitled "Parasitically modified organisms". He has published more than 140 articles in international peer reviewed journals (1995-present), including Nature, Evolution, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Ecology Letters, Ecology, American Naturalist, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Plos pathogen, Proteomics and also edited five books (two at Oxford University Press).
Contributors:
Shelley A. Adamo, Dalhousie University, Canada
John Alcock, Arizona State University, USA
Victoria Braithwaite, Penn State University, USA
Jacques Brodeur, Université de Montréal, Canada
Frank Cézilly, UMR CNRS, France
Richard Dawkins, University of Oxford, UK
Frédérique Dubois, Université de Montréal, Canada
Scott V. Edwards, Harvard University, USA
Lee Ehrman, State University of New York, USA
Bert Hölldobler, Arizona State University, USA and University of Würzburg, Germany
David P. Hughes, Penn State University, USA
Pedro Jordano, CSIC, Spain
Alex Kacelnik, Oxford University, UK
Armand M. Kuris, University of California, USA
Kevin D. Lafferty, United States Geological Survey and University of California, USA
Naomi E. Langmore, Australian National University, Australia
Edward P. Levri, Penn State University, USA
Michel Loreau, McGill University, Canada
Mark C. Mescher, Penn State University, USA
Wolfgang J. Miller, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Janice Moore, Colorado State University, USA
Robert Poulin, University of Otago, New Zealand
Andrew Read, Penn State University, USA
Thierry Rigaud, UMR CNRS, Université de Bourgogne, France
Gene Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Bernard D. Roitberg, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Daniela Schneider, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Claire N. Spottiswoode, University of Cambridge, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa
Stephen C. Stearns, Yale University, USA
Frédéric Thomas, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France
