Allocation to sexual versus nonsexual disease transmission

American Naturalist

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-45

  Thrall, Peter H ^a,b   Antonovics, Janis ^a   Wilson, William G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disease evolution; Mating behavior; Social behavior; Venereal disease

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST-PATHOGEN RELATIONSHIP; NONSEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031912888     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/286100     Document Type: Article

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