Does elevated testosterone result in increased exposure and transmission of parasites?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 528-537

  Grear, Daniel A ^a   Perkins, Sarah E ^a   Hudson, Peter J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact rates; Peromyscus leucopus; Sex biased transmission; Social network; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ELEVATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MALE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RODENT; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MALE; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY; RODENT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MALE; MICE; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY; RODENT DISEASES; SEX FACTORS; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 65649127144     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01306.x     Document Type: Article

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