Mechanism of control
The jewel wasp injects venom directly inside the cockroachʼs ____
Central Nervous System
The lab researchers had stung and un stung cockroaches ______ to test inhibitions in limb locomotive movements
swim
The ichneumonid wasp Hymenoepimecis coerces it’s host spider to change what behavior
It’s web spinning
the CNS of insects is surrounded by a physical protective sheath around the blood-brain barrier called the _______
ganglionic sheath
E. californiensis, the parasite that infects killifish, also infects these two types of animals
Snails and (piscivorous) Birds
Predator hosts consume an increased proportion of infected prey, a phenomenon known as _______
parasite-increased trophic transmission
At the peak of the venom’s effect, stung cockroaches endured voltages more than ______ higher than un-stung cockroaches
eightfold
The braconid endoparasitoid wasp coheres caterpillars to do this to defend against predators.
violently swing it’s head.
In insects the SupEG and SEG comprise the cerebral ganglia and have been linked to controlling _______
Locomotion
What part of the CNS of the cockroaches is involved in the decrease of spontaneous and evoked walking in stung cockroackes?
the SEG
When a cockroaches is stung, venom does not affect all motor outputs similarly, but rather that some aspects of locomotion, e.g. _______, is specifically impaired.
Rodents infected with Toxoplasma gondii show an increase in what two behaviors.
Exploration and attraction of cats
Name one of the two killifish behaviors that DA and serotonin play a key roll in regulating
Swimming ability or social behavior
In most localities E. californiensis infects what percentage of killifish over a minimum size.
100%
if one experimentally prevents the parasitic wasp from laying eggs inside it’s host cockroach it will remain in a hypokenetic state for this long.
5 days
Cockroaches stung and infected show similar characteristics to mamels with low _____
Motivation
Infected killfish display _____ times as many conspicuous swimming behaviors
4 times
Indoleamine serotonin, the catecholamines DA, adrenaline, and noradrenaline are all example of this.