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 |
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Other Authors: | Ajai Vyas |
Format: | Theses and Dissertations |
Language: | English |
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2016
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/68901 |
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Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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