title: Manipulators live better, but are they always parasites?
abstract: A recent study reports partner manipulation for an interaction that was considered a reward-for-defence mutualism. Secretions of lycaenid caterpillars altered ant locomotion and aggressiveness, likely by manipulating dopaminergic signalling. This study opens the question whether such manipulation is common and whether manipulation necessarily characterises an interaction as parasitism.
authors: Departamento de Ingeniería Genética, CINVESTAV - Irapuato, Km 9.6 Libramiento Norte, Irapuato, Guanajuato, 36421 México. Electronic address: mheil@ira.cinvestav.mx.
authors: Martin
authors: M
authors: Heil
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000502:physiology*; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D002080:Butterflies / Q000502:physiology*; D013559:Symbiosis