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Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 438 (2012) 61 –67 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology jour nal homepage: /locate/jembe Parasite-induced behavioural changes to the trade-off between foraging and predator evasion in a marine snail Tsukushi Kamiya ⁎, Robert Poulin Department of Zoology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Trophic interactions in ecological communities not only affect consumer-resource densities, but also induce Received 8 June 2012 phenotypic responses that can ripple through a food web to influence prey resources, competitors and other Received in revised form 3 September 2012 predators (i.e. trait-mediated interactions). Predators affect short-term trade-off decisions in prey species Accepted 5 September 2012 through behavioural alterations, yet the role of parasites in the context of trait-mediated interactions is rarely Available online 31 October 2012 discussed, despite our extensive knowledge of parasite-induced behavioural alterations. Adding parasites to the picture, the foraging–predation trade-off presents an interesting case where the effects of predator- and Keywords: Foraging–predation trade‐off parasite-induced behavioural responses occur in conjunction. Empirical studies on the effect of parasites on Gastropod