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Our results demonstrate the potential for complex interactions between consistent personality variation and parasite infection, though we discuss the difficulty of attributing causality in these associations. Accounting for complex parasite-behaviour associations may prove essential in understanding the evolutionary ecology of behavioural variation and the dynamics of host–parasite interactions.

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This page is a summary of: Personality and parasites: sex-dependent associations between avian malaria infection and multiple behavioural traits, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-011-1156-8.
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