ArticleBehavioral ecology and sociobiology2018
Parasite infection and host personality:
Article in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Individual activity of forest rodents correlates to pathogen communities.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A Systematic Review of the Relationship Between Host Personality Traits and Parasitic Infection.Biology · 2026Review
- Parasites alter interaction patterns in fish social networks.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Associating with kin selects for disease resistance and against tolerance.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Let's stick together: Infection enhances preferences for social grouping in a songbird species.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Recent Advances with Fish Microsporidia.Experientia supplementum (2012) · 2022Article
- Bidirectional interactions between host social behaviour and parasites arise through ecological and evolutionary processes.Parasitology · 2021Article
- Personality affects dynamics of an experimental pathogen in little brown bats.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
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3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
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Abstract
abstractThe existence of animal personality is now well-documented, although the causes and consequences of this phenomenon are still largely unclear. Parasite infection can have pervasive effects on hosts, including altering host behaviour, and may thus contribute to differences in host personality. We investigated the relationship between the three-spined stickleback and its common parasite SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: Parasite infection that alters host behaviour could be a possible avenue of research into the causes of animal personality. We studied the link between infection and personality using the three-spined stickleback and its parasite
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