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Sex-biased parasitism in vector-borne disease: Vector preference?
Sex-biased infections are a recurrent observation in vertebrates. In many species, males are more parasitized than females. Two potentially complementary mechanisms are often suggested to explain this pattern: sexual differences in susceptibility mainly caused by the effect of sex hormones on immuni...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497283/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31048933 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216360 |