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| Title |
Behavioural manipulation of insect hosts by Baculoviridaeas a process of niche construction
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| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-13-170 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Steven Hamblin, Mark M Tanaka |
| Abstract |
Niche construction has received increasing attention in recent years as a vital force in evolution and examples of niche construction have been identified in a wide variety of taxa, but viruses are conspicuously absent. In this study we explore how niche construction can lead to viruses engineering their hosts (including behavioural manipulation) with feedback on selective pressures for viral transmission and virulence. To illustrate this concept we focus on Baculoviridae, a family of invertebrate viruses that have evolved to modify the feeding behaviour of their lepidopteran hosts and liquefy their cadavers as part of the course of infection. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 5 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 4 | 80% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Scientists | 2 | 40% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 36 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 34 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 17% |
| Researcher | 6 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 14% |
| Professor | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 4 | 11% |
| Unknown | 5 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 17 | 47% |
| Unspecified | 2 | 6% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 6% |
| Mathematics | 2 | 6% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 4 | 11% |
| Unknown | 8 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 July 2020.
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#1,686,949
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Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#400
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#13,469
of 194,407 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#10
of 76 outputs
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