TWiP 44: Parasites provide a cricket subsidy for trout - a podcast by Vincent Racaniello

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson explain how a nematode manipulates cricket behavior and alters the food web of a stream.

Links for this episode:

• Nematomorph parasites alter food web of streams (Ecol Lett)


• Manipulation of cockle behavior by a trematode (Parasitology)


• Cockles infected by one parasite are more susceptible to a second (J Parasitol)


• Letters read on TWiP 44

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