Higher metrics of health and reproductive readiness detected in songbirds with chronic Plasmodium infections persist following experimental inoculation

These two files are the result of a manuscript titled, 'Higher metrics of health and reproductive readiness detected in songbirds with chronic Plasmodium infections persist following experimental inoculation'. We first compared metrics of health (mass, scaled mass, hematocrit, activity rate) and reproductive readiness (cloacal protuberance volume, maximum testosterone concentration in plasma) in male songbirds (Dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis hyemalis) with and without chronic Plamodium infections. Then, we quantified the change in these metrics following experimental inoculation with Plasmodium, and asked whether these changes varied between males with and without chronic Plasmodium infections. The file ending in "_Dataframe" contains all data analyzed for this manuscript. The file ending in "_Results" includes three tables of results from the dataframe.