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Predator Cat Odors Activate Sexual Arousal Pathways in Brains of Toxoplasma gondii Infected Rats

Cat odors induce rapid, innate and stereotyped defensive behaviors in rats at first exposure, a presumed response to the evolutionary pressures of predation. Bizarrely, rats infected with the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii approach the cat odors they typically avoid. Since the protozoan Toxoplasma...

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Main Authors: House, Patrick K., Vyas, Ajai, Sapolsky, Robert
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Public Library of Science 2011
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3157360/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21858053
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023277
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