Sex and death: Microevolutionary trade-offs between reproductive and immune investment in dung flies

Current Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2001, Pages

  Hosken, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0035873832     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00211-1     Document Type: Note

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