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Does Toxoplasma infection increase sexual masochism and submissiveness? Yes and no

The parasite Toxoplasma needs to get from its intermediate hosts, e.g. rodents, to its definitive hosts, cats, by predation. To increase the probability of this occurrence, Toxoplasma manipulates the behavior of its hosts, for example, by the demethylation of promoters of certain genes in the host&#...

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Autor principal: Flegr, Jaroslav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5731508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29259726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2017.1303590