Ítalo Mendes Delazari- Master of Science
- PhD's Student at Federal University of Viçosa
Ítalo Mendes Delazari
- Master of Science
- PhD's Student at Federal University of Viçosa
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Introduction
I am a PhD's student at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa (BR). My research work focuses on behavioral ecology. I am primarily interested in behavioral alterations of hosts by parasites, especially the mechanisms causing the alterations and how parasites benefit from them. I use spiders that are parasitized by different organisms, like parasitoid wasps and fungi, as my study model.
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Education
March 2024 - March 2028
March 2022 - February 2024
March 2017 - February 2022
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Publications (2)
Certain parasites improve their fitness by manipulating their host’s behaviour. Some evidence suggests that parasites exploit innate pathways in the host to manipulate their behaviour. Furthermore, phylogenetically unrelated parasites can generate similar behavioural changes in hosts from the same taxonomic group. Spiders are hosts for several para...
Strategies to invade and exploit hosts for survival are an essential part of the parasitic lifestyle. Species of the Polysphincta genus group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), which utilize spiders as hosts, are examples of parasitoids that present several behavioral strategies in host immobilization and egg laying. In this study, we characterized the...
