Behavioral betrayal: How select fungal parasites enlist living insects to do their bidding

Brian Lovett; Angie Macias; Jason E Stajich; John Cooley; Jørgen Eilenberg; Henrik H de Fine Licht; Matt T Kasson

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1008598

Behavioral betrayal: How select fungal parasites enlist living insects to do their bidding

PLoS Pathog. 2020 Jun 18;16(6):e1008598. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008598. eCollection 2020 Jun.

Authors

Brian Lovett¹, Angie Macias¹, Jason E Stajich², John Cooley³, Jørgen Eilenberg⁴, Henrik H de Fine Licht⁴, Matt T Kasson¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America.
² Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America.
³ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America.
⁴ Department of Plant and Environmental Science, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Fungi / physiology*
Host-Pathogen Interactions / physiology*
Insecta / microbiology*

Grants and funding

JES was funded by NSF DEB 1441715. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.