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Emerging research on how parasites affect host behavior fuels speculation about their influence on human history.
For example, gastrointestinal disease would increase shedding of pathogens into the environment and affect host behavior.
Moreover, we have identified genes that are involved in the expression of putative proteins that might affect host behavior.
The variety of parasites that can affect host behavior suggests that the phenomena of parasitic host control might be more common in nature than currently established and could have been overlooked in humans.
The discovery of novel microorganisms that affect host behavior may improve our understanding of neurobiology and neurochemistry, while the diversity of such organisms may be of interest to evolutionary biologists, psychologists and religious scholars.
Also a unique infectious cancer in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) while not known to affect host behavior benefits from the preexisting aggressiveness of the host species that allows it to spread [ 42].
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It has been documented that parasites can significantly affect the structure of ecosystems, especially when they are parasitic castrators and/or are affecting host behavior [ 24].
Microbial endocrinology as a mechanism by the microbiota to affect host neurophysiological function and ultimately behavior, and in a similar fashion how the host may regulate the composition of the microbiota, a number of experimental issues, and assumptions, need to be addressed.
Thus, although R. insecticola affect host performance as well as host acceptance behavior in aphids, the impact of the symbiont is not necessarily positive and seems to be context dependent.
Subsequent studies on mosquitoes have revealed that 1-octen-3-ol affects host-seeking behavior in mosquitoes [28], [29], [30].
In addition to affecting host immunity, sex hormones alter gene expression and behavior that influence susceptibility and resistance to infection [ 7].
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