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Latest publications

Genetic Underpinnings of Host Manipulation by Ophiocordyceps as Revealed by Comparative Transcriptomics

July 8, 2020 Adriana De Bekker 0

Check out our latest publication in G3. For this publication, Ian, Biplabendu, Thienthanh, and Charissa collaborated with Robin Ohm from Utrecht University and Andreas Brachmann […]

Ophiocordyceps-ant interactions as an integrative model to understand the molecular basis of parasitic behavioral manipulation.

June 1, 2019 Adriana De Bekker 0

Charissa offers an opinion piece on current hypotheses and the state of the field in Ophiocordyceps and behavior manipulation by parasites.

Do zombie ant fungi turn their hosts into light seekers?

January 8, 2019 Adriana De Bekker 0

A longitudinal field survey in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil, in collaboration with our colleagues there, point to light as a major cue underlying the […]

The evolutionary ecology of circadian rhythms in infection.

January 1, 2019 Adriana De Bekker 0

In this perspective, how circadian rhythm influences host and parasite biology are discussed – and, if behavior manipulating parasites could leverage clock pathways and behaviors […]

The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and their parasites: effects of parasitic manipulations and host responses on ant behavioral ecology

August 28, 2018 Adriana De Bekker 0

In this review, we discuss the current literature on parasites of ants and their impacts on individual, caste, and colony behavior. The review also points […]

Daily rhythms and enrichment patterns in the transcriptome of the behavior-manipulating parasite Ophiocordyceps kimflemingiae

November 3, 2017 Adriana De Bekker 0

In our newest publication, published in PLOS ONE, we show that the zombie ant fungus Ophiocordyceps kimflemingiae has a functional biological clock and that this results in […]

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