Women infected with parasite Toxoplasma have more sons

Abstract

The toxoplasmosis associated with immunosuppression or immunomodulation might be responsible for the enhanced survival of male embryos.

Keywords

• human sex ratio
• secondary sex ratio
• immunosuppression
• manipulation hypothesis
• Trivers-Willard hypothesis
• latent asymptomatic toxoplasmosis
• human sex-ratio
• apodemus-sylvaticus
• rattus-norvegicus
• offspring sex
• house mouse
• gondii
• birth
• behavior
• mice