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Circulating white blood cell counts in captive and wild rodents are influenced by body mass rather than testes mass, a correlate of mating promiscuity

2015-06-01

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Comparative studies of captive primates and carnivores have shown a positive correlation between total white blood cell (WBC) counts and the level of inferred mating promiscuity (e.g. using testes mass). This correlation has been interpreted to support the ‘sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)’ hypothesis, which states that differential spread of STDs is caused by variation in mating behaviour which shapes baselin...

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Literature Corpus work: 79893748-c158-5e6c-b33b-f2d2f1be0328
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12394

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