Parasites, Bright Males, and the Immunocompetence Handicap
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Summary
A phenomenological model is presented, operating on an intraspecific level, which views the cost of secondary sexual development from an endocrinological perspective and proposes a negative-feedback loop between signal intensity and parasite burden by suggesting that testosterone-dependent signal intensity is a plastic response.
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- 1992-03-01
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Keywords
Immunocompetence, Sexual selection, Biology, Testosterone (patch), Intraspecific competition
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