Adaptive host manipulation by Toxoplasma gondii: Fact or fiction?

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 150-155

  Worth, Amanda R ^a   Lymbery, Alan J ^a   Thompson, R C Andrew ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive manipulation; Behaviour; Cat; Sexual reproduction; Toxoplasma gondii; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BREEDING; CAT; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAT DISEASES; CATS; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MICE; RATS; REPRODUCTION; RODENT DISEASES; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84875547490     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2013.01.004     Document Type: Review

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