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Parasite-infected sticklebacks increase the risk-taking behaviour of uninfected group members

Trophically transmitted parasites frequently increase their hosts' risk-taking behaviour, to facilitate transmission to the next host. Whether such elevated risk-taking can spill over to uninfected group members is, however, unknown. To investigate this, we confronted groups of 6 three-spined s...

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Autores principales: Demandt, Nicolle, Saus, Benedikt, Kurvers, Ralf H. J. M., Krause, Jens, Kurtz, Joachim, Scharsack, Jörn Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6030526/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29925621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0956