Gender dimorphism in parasitic behavioural manipulation hypothesis

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Abdulai-Saiku, Samira
• مؤلفون آخرون: Ajai Vyas
• التنسيق: Theses and Dissertations
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2017
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/72521
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

The behavioural manipulation hypothesis states that a parasite will alter those parts of its host behaviour important to its survival and transmission in order to increase its fitness. It has been demonstrated that there is a gender dimorphism in parasitic infections in many hosts. This raises an im...