What makes a feline fatal in toxoplasma gondii's fatal feline attraction? Infected rats choose wild cats

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 118-128

  Kaushik, M ^a   Knowles, S C L ^a   Webster, J P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; CHEMISTRY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FELIDAE; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; ODOR; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXOPLASMA; URINE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ESCAPE REACTION; FELIDAE; FEMALE; MALE; ODORS; RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; URINE;

EID: 84904612068     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icu060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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