Dietary factors – including the quantity or quality of the food ingested – potentially impact the outcome of host-parasite interactions, through a variety of mechanisms. In this project, host nutritional content is manipulated qualitative and quantitatively, and the influence on host and parasites are examined. The consequences of either quantitative changes in food intake or qualitative changes in diet (i.e. type of food) may potentially benefit the host fish or parasites. The first part of the thesis results (Chapters 3 and 4) documents experiments conducted to evaluate the effect of food type, dietary protein content and ration on host-parasite interactions, focusing on the health, growth and development of fish, and the growth rate of S...
This chapter provides an examination of the parasite taxa that regularly infect threespined stickleb...
This thesis firstly investigates the effect of the cestode parasite Schistocephalus solidus on the r...
This thesis firstly investigates the effect of the cestode parasite Schistocephalus solidus on the r...
Three-spined sticklebacks in natural lacustrine populations are often infected with plerocercoids of...
The effect of infection with the pseudophyllidean cestode Schistocephalus solidus on the meal size o...
Parasitism involves two distinct organisms, the parasite and the host. Parasite interactions add to ...
The use of naturally infected hosts in studies attempting to identify parasite-induced changes in ho...
Host phenotype and genotype have a direct effect on the outcome of host-parasite interactions, and t...
The study of consequences of interaction between host personality and parasite infections can have s...
Parasites depend on host-derived energy for growth and development, and so are potentially affected ...
Threat-sensitive decision-making might be changed in response to a parasitic infection that impairs ...
Compensatory growth responses are made by individual fish to restore their original growth trajector...
Parasites impose an energetic cost upon their hosts, yet, paradoxically, instances have been reporte...
Parasites impose an energetic cost upon their hosts, yet, paradoxically, instances have been reporte...
Plerocercoids of the pseudophyllidean cestode Schistocephalus solidus infect the three-spined stickl...
This chapter provides an examination of the parasite taxa that regularly infect threespined stickleb...
This thesis firstly investigates the effect of the cestode parasite Schistocephalus solidus on the r...
This thesis firstly investigates the effect of the cestode parasite Schistocephalus solidus on the r...
Three-spined sticklebacks in natural lacustrine populations are often infected with plerocercoids of...
The effect of infection with the pseudophyllidean cestode Schistocephalus solidus on the meal size o...
Parasitism involves two distinct organisms, the parasite and the host. Parasite interactions add to ...
The use of naturally infected hosts in studies attempting to identify parasite-induced changes in ho...
Host phenotype and genotype have a direct effect on the outcome of host-parasite interactions, and t...
The study of consequences of interaction between host personality and parasite infections can have s...
Parasites depend on host-derived energy for growth and development, and so are potentially affected ...
Threat-sensitive decision-making might be changed in response to a parasitic infection that impairs ...
Compensatory growth responses are made by individual fish to restore their original growth trajector...
Parasites impose an energetic cost upon their hosts, yet, paradoxically, instances have been reporte...
Parasites impose an energetic cost upon their hosts, yet, paradoxically, instances have been reporte...
Plerocercoids of the pseudophyllidean cestode Schistocephalus solidus infect the three-spined stickl...
This chapter provides an examination of the parasite taxa that regularly infect threespined stickleb...
This thesis firstly investigates the effect of the cestode parasite Schistocephalus solidus on the r...
This thesis firstly investigates the effect of the cestode parasite Schistocephalus solidus on the r...