Parasitic manipulation of male sexual advertisement in Toxoplasma gondii- Rattus norvegicus association

Parasitic manipulation of host behavior is often seen as exploitative in nature. An example is Toxoplasma gondii that has shown to alter the innate fear in rats toward cat odors, increasing its chances of transmission to complete its two-stage life cycle. In this thesis, I studied another behavioral...

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Main Author: Vasudevan, Anand
Other Authors: Ajai Vyas
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/68901