The genetics of pathogen avoidance in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Molecular Microbiology, 2007 International audienceMuch attention is rightly focused on how microbes cause disease, but they can also affect other aspects of host physiology, including behaviour.
Schulenburg, Hinrich +3 more
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A Developmental Map of Pathogen-Avoidance Behaviors
Evolution and Human BehaviorDespite the significant costs of early-life infections, young children show little behavioral avoidance of pathogens. This phenomenon raises as-of-yet unanswered questions about when anti-pathogen psychology develops.
Joshua M. Tybur +2 more
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A modified leaving assay to study pathogen avoidance
, 2014 A modified leaving assay to study C.
Rachel Mcmullan (506214) +1 more
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Intestinal lipid metabolism controls molecular and behavioral immunity through NHR-68 and gut-brain signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans. [PDF]
PLoS BiologyAnimals must allocate limited energetic resources across competing defense programs in response to infection. Here, we show that the conserved nuclear hormone receptor NHR-68 integrates fatty acid metabolism with the neural control of molecular and ...
Jie Ren +4 more
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Social factors and the neurobiology of pathogen avoidance. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2022 Although the evolutionary causes and consequences of pathogen avoidance have been gaining increasing interest, there has been less attention paid to the proximate neurobiological mechanisms. Animals gauge the infection status of conspecifics and the threat they represent on the basis of various sensory and social cues.
Kavaliers M +4 more
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Examining Pathogen Avoidance in Predator-Prey and Scavenging Systems
Frontiers in Ecology and EvolutionThat predators ‘cull the sick and the weak’ is an adage in ecological texts, but the mechanisms by which disease is curtailed within ecosystems has puzzled ecologists for many years.
Jennifer L Malmberg +2 more
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Distinct Roles of Sensory Neurons in Mediating Pathogen Avoidance and Neuropeptide-Dependent Immune Regulation [PDF]
Cell Reports, 2017 Summary: Increasing evidence implies an extensive and universal interaction between the immune system and the nervous system. Previous studies showed that OCTR-1, a neuronal G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) analogous to human norepinephrine receptors ...
Xiou Cao +3 more
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Testing the Motivational Tradeoffs Between Pathogen Avoidance and Status Acquisition [PDF]
Social Psychological Bulletin, 2020 To reduce disease transmission through interpersonal contact, humans have evolved a behavioral immune system that facilitates identification and avoidance of pathogens.
Mitch Brown, Donald F. Sacco
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Multisensory pathogen detection drives rapid escape and shapes host-microbe interactions in Drosophila larvae. [PDF]
PLoS PathogensLarvae of many insects develop immersed in decomposing substrates densely populated with microbes, yet how they detect and respond to pathogenic threats during early life remains poorly understood.
Olivier Zugasti, Julien Royet
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The Evolution of Masturbation Is Associated With Postcopulatory Selection and Pathogen Avoidance in Primates [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2023 Volker Sommer +2 more
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