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The Sicker Sex: Understanding Male Biases in Parasitic Infection, Resource Allocation and Fitness

The “sicker sex” idea summarizes our knowledge of sex biases in parasite burden and immune ability whereby males fare worse than females. The theoretical basis of this is that because males invest more on mating effort than females, the former pay the costs by having a weaker immune system and thus...

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Autores principales: Córdoba-Aguilar, Alex, Munguía-Steyer, Roberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3806765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24194830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076246