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Article in PeerJ, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Toxoplasma gondii infection and testosterone alteration: A systematic review and meta-analyses.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- Wealth, health, cats and Toxoplasma gondii: An ecological correlational study of subjective well-being across 93 countries.PloS one · 2026Article
- Beyond Latency: ChronicBiomedicines · 2025Review
- Re-assessing host manipulation in Toxoplasma: the underexplored role of sexual transmission - evidence, mechanisms, implications.Folia parasitologica · 2025Review
- An Evolutionary Psychological Approach Toward BDSM Interest and Behavior.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Review
- Definitions of parasitism, considering its potentially opposing effects at different levels of hierarchical organization.Parasitology · 2023Review
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
Funding
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Abstract
Background: Parasites are among the main factors that negatively impact the health and reproductive success of organisms. However, if parasites diminish a host's health and attractiveness to such an extent that finding a mate becomes almost impossible, the parasite would decrease its odds of reproducing and passing to the next generation. There is evidence that Methods: For the first aim, Results: First, we found that infected men had lower facial fluctuating asymmetry whereas infected women had lower body mass, lower body mass index, a tendency for lower facial fluctuating asymmetry, higher self-perceived attractiveness, and a higher number of sexual partners than non-infected ones. Then, we found that infected men and women were rated as more attractive and healthier than non-infected ones. Conclusions: Our results suggest that some sexually transmitted parasites, such as
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