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Review Hughes, D.P., Brodeur, J., Thomas, Thomas, F: Host Manipulation by Parasites. Oxford University Press; 2012. 224 pages. ISBN 9780199642243 It is ten years since Janice Moore produced her comprehensive review detailing knowledge of parasites and animal behaviour, as it stood a decade ago. In the intervening time the field has moved on, and broadened its scope. This edited volume by Hughes, Brodeur and Thomas provides a timely and engaging synthesis of current information and opinions concerning the diverse ways in which parasites can manipulate their hosts to enhance their own fitness. Each of the eleven chapters is followed by an aptly named afterword, almost all written by prominent experts on behavioural ecology rather than parasitology. These illuminating afterwords not only summarise and comment upon the preceding chapter but provide fresh insights into the particular topic. This useful and little used device adds much to the volume, making the intended link between these two disciplines. From the start, the style is accessible to novices to the field and Moore’s witty and entertaining history of the development of the field of host manipulation over the last three decades sets the scene for the eclectic nature of the remaining 10 chapters. Most students of parasitology will have been introduced to the fascinating and bizarre stories of snails with striped, pulsating, tentacles full of Leucochoridium paradoxum, brain-worm-infected ants clamped by their jaws to the tips of vegetation and photophilic shrimps gyrating at the water’s surface as their acanthocephalan symbionts enhance their likelihood of being predated. Several contributors to this volume explore these favourite examples, but in addition, a refreshing variety of

Review of “Host manipulation by parasites ” by David P. Hughes, Jacques Brodeur and Frédéric Thomas