Publications by authors named "Prabitha Mohan"
Article Synopsis
- Bodyguard manipulation is a behavioral alteration where the host's actions change to protect the offspring of a parasitoid from threats, leading to reduced activity but increased aggression when disturbed.
- After the parasitoid leaves the host, it enters a quiescent state but shows defensive behaviors to enhance the survival of the parasitoid's young.
- Research indicates that the host's behavior may be linked to stress responses, particularly stress-induced sleep, and suggests that integrating behavioral studies with advanced biological analyses could shed light on the mechanisms behind this manipulation.
Urbanization is a crucial driver of environmental and biodiversity change. It is suggested that urbanization favours generalist and invasive species and might harm specialists of natural and semi-natural habitats. In this study, we examined how an urbanization gradient and environmental gradients in the habitat area, habitat diversity, elevation, and proportion of built-up area influenced the abundance and richness of ants within tropical forest islet habitat in south India.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSome parasites have an ability to fabricate the behavior of their host and impel the host to guard parasites' offspring, which is popularly called as bodyguard manipulation. Psalis pennatula larva parasitized by a braconid parasitoid wasp Microplitis pennatula exhibits some behavioral changes including the guarding of the parasitoid pupa from its natural enemies. We hypothesized that these behavioral change exhibited by the parasitized host larva are induced by the parasitoid and can be considered as an example of bodyguard manipulation.
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