Article
How do biases in sex ratio and disease characteristics affect the spread of sexually transmitted infections?
2020-07-02
Abstract excerpt
The epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is inherently linked to host mating dynamics. Studies across many taxa show that adult sex ratio, a major determinant of host mating dynamics, is often skewed - sometimes strongly - toward males or females. However, few predictions exist for the effects of skewed sex ratio on STI epidemiology, and none when coupled with sex biased disease characteristics....
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- Literature Corpus work
- e2be331e-a507-5427-a4fe-e751ca51728e
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.06.30.179747