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ArticleCurrent zoology2024

Natural parasites in conjunction with behavioral and color traits explain male agonistic behaviors in a lizard.

Rodrigo Megía-Palma, Dhanashree Paranjpe, Robert D Cooper, Pauline Blaimont, Barry Sinervo

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Article in Current zoology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Rodrigo Megía-PalmaDepartment of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Parasitology Unit, Universidad de Alcalá (UAH), E-28805, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1038-0468
Dhanashree ParanjpeRupa Rahul Bajaj Center for Environment and Art, Empress Botanical Gardens, Kavade Mala, Pune, India.
Robert D CooperDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Pauline BlaimontDepartment of Biology, University of Houston Downtown, 1 Main St., Houston, TX 77002, USA.
Barry SinervoDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
Universidade do Porto · PTUniversity of California, Los Angeles · USUniversity of California, Santa Cruz · USUniversity of Houston - Downtown · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Male competition conforms to a cost-benefit model, because while aggression may increase reproductive prospects, it can also increase the risk of injury. We hypothesize that an additional cost in aggressive males would be an increase in parasite load associated with a high energy investment into sexual competition. Some of these infections, in turn, may downmodulate the level of host aggression via energetic trade-offs. We staged dyadic male contests in the lab to investigate the relationships of multiple parasites with the agonistic behavior of lizard hosts,

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Identifiers

PMID38476133
PMCPMC10926264
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