Parasite‐Induced Fruit Mimicry in a Tropical Canopy Ant

@article{Yanoviak2008ParasiteInducedFM,
  title={Parasite‐Induced Fruit Mimicry in a Tropical Canopy Ant},
  author={S. Yanoviak and M. Kaspari and R. Dudley and G. Poinar},
  journal={The American Naturalist},
  year={2008},
  volume={171},
  pages={536 - 544}
}
  • S. Yanoviak, M. Kaspari, +1 author G. Poinar
  • Published 2008
  • Biology, Medicine
  • The American Naturalist
    • Some parasites modify characteristics of intermediate hosts to facilitate their consumption by subsequent hosts, but examples of parasite‐mediated mimicry are rare. Here we report dramatic changes in the appearance and behavior of nematode‐parasitized ants such that they resemble ripe fruits in the tropical rain forest canopy. Unlike healthy ants, which are completely black, infected ants have bright red, berry‐like gasters full of parasite eggs. The infected gasters are held in a conspicuous… CONTINUE READING
    View on U of Chicago
    louisville.edu
    86 Citations
    Highly Influencial Citations
    5
    Background Citations
    42
    Methods Citations
    2
    Results Citations
    1
    86 Citations
    Citation Type

    Citation Type

    The parasite's long arm: a tapeworm parasite induces behavioural changes in uninfected group members of its social host
    • 13
    • PDF
    Cuckoo wasps manipulate foraging and resting activities in their hosts
    • 4
    Disease Dynamics in a Specialized Parasite of Ant Societies
    • 32
    • PDF
    Pathogens, parasites, and parasitoids of ants: a synthesis of parasite biodiversity and epidemiological traits
    • 3
    • PDF
    The Life of a Dead Ant: The Expression of an Adaptive Extended Phenotype
    • 151
    • PDF
    Parasite-induced colour alteration of intermediate hosts increases ingestion by suitable final host species
    • 1
    • PDF
    Male field crickets infested by parasitoid flies express phenotypes that may benefit the parasitoids
    • 6
    Parasitism and queen presence interactively shape worker behaviour and fertility in an ant host
    • 1
    Myrmica ants host highly diverse parasitic communities: from social parasites to microbes
    • 46
    • PDF
    Male fi eld crickets infested by parasitoid fl ies express phenotypes that may bene fi t the parasitoids
    • PDF

    References

    SHOWING 1-10 OF 51 REFERENCES
    Floral mimicry by a plant pathogen
    • 147
    • PDF
    The Behavior of Parasitized AnimalsWhen an ant … is not an ant
    • 82
    Effect of a gregarine parasite on the color of Myrmecia pilosula (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
    • 14
    • Highly Influential
    Physiological and behavioural interactions between parasites and invertebrate hosts.
    • H. Hurd
    • Biology, Medicine
    • Advances in parasitology
    • 1990
    • 159
    • Highly Influential
    Pollen Eating, Storing, and Spitting by Ants
    • 29
    • PDF
    Removal of seeds from Neotropical frugivore droppings
    • 65
    Life Cycle of Didilia Ooglypta (Nematoda: Tetradonematidae), a Parasite of Phlebotomine Sandflies of Afghanistan
    • 5
    • PDF
    Modification of morphological characters and cuticular compounds in worker ants Leptothorax nylanderi induced by endoparasites Anomotaenia brevis.
    • 32
    Myrmeconema neotropicum n. g., n. sp., a new tetradonematid nematode parasitising South American populations of Cephalotes atratus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with the discovery of an apparent parasite-induced host morph
    • 27
    • PDF
    Ants Myrmica rubra L. and M. scabrinodis Nylander as Intermediate Hosts of a Cestode
    • 12