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Is there a sicker sex? Dose relationships modify male-female differences in infection prevalence

2023-05-15

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Throughout the animal kingdom there are striking differences in the propensity of one sex or the other to become infected. However, attempts to generalise when we should expect males or females to emerge as the sicker sex have proven challenging. We argue that this is because our current understanding of sex differences in susceptibility is inherently limited, as most inferences have come from f...

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Literature Corpus work: e688a1f0-5a52-5973-b727-59599a86f58f
DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.14.540725

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