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Meeting Abstract
S7.3-1 Monday, Jan. 6 13:30 Reconstructing the evolutionary history of behavioral manipulation HUGHES, DP; Penn State dhughes@psu.edu
In this talk I will consider when parasites evolved the ability to manipulate behavior. It is a rare phenomenon when we recall that half of all life is parasitic and that only a few of them manipulate behavior. So, why did some evolve to do it? And do we have any hope reconstructing the evolutionary pathways? In this talk I suggest we can and detail our own work in fungi that control ant behavior