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Sexual selection and immune function in Drosophila melanogaster.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Feb 2008

McKean Kurt A, Nunney Leonard

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The evolution of immune function depends not only on variation in genes contributing directly to the immune response, but also on genetic variation in other traits indirectly affecting immunocompetence. In particular, sexual selection is predicted to trade-off with immunocompetence because the ex...

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PMID: 18070086
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00286.x

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