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The most common human protozoan parasite in developed countries,<jats:italic>Toxoplasma gondii<\/jats:italic>(prevalence 20%\u221280%), is known to change the behaviour of its intermediate hosts, thereby increasing the probability of transmission to its definitive host (the cat) by predation. The intermediate hosts, which under natural conditions are rodents, serve as the vector for<jats:italic>Toxoplasma<\/jats:italic>. Therefore, we speculate that<jats:italic>Toxoplasma<\/jats:italic>can alter the secondary sex ratio (i.e. male to female ratio in the offspring) of infected females to increase the proportion of (congenitally infected) male offspring, which are the more migratory sex in most rodent species. Here we studied the sex ratio of experimentally infected laboratory mice, expressed here as the proportion of males in the litter. In accordance with our hypothesis and results of previous retrospective cohort studies on human subjects, mice with toxoplasmosis produced a higher sex ratio than controls, in the early phase of latent infection. 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