Enikő Csata, Alfonso Pérez-Escudero, Emmanuel Laury, Hanna Leitner, Gérard Latil, Jürgen Heinze, Stephen J Simpson, Sylvia Cremer, Audrey Dussutour
In animals, parasitic infections impose significant fitness costs.1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 Infected animals can alter their feeding behavior to resist infection,7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 but parasites can manipulate animal foraging behavior to their own benefits.13 , 14 , 15 , 16 How nutrition influences host-parasite interactions is not well understood, as studies have mainly focused on the host and less on the parasite.9 , 12 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 We used the nutritional geometry framework24 to investigate the role of amino acids (AA) and carbohydrates (C) in a host-parasite system: the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, and the entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium brunneum...
January 24, 2024: Current Biology: CB