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Sex-specific effects of a parasite evolving in a female-biased host population

BACKGROUND: Males and females differ in many ways and might present different opportunities and challenges to their parasites. In the same way that parasites adapt to the most common host type, they may adapt to the characteristics of the host sex they encounter most often. To explore this hypothesi...

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Autores principales: Duneau, David, Luijckx, Pepijn, Ruder, Ludwig F, Ebert, Dieter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3568004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23249484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-10-104