Why Sexually Transmitted Infections Tend to Cause Infertility: An Evolutionary Hypothesis

Péter Apari; João Dinis de Sousa; Viktor Müller

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1004111

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Why Sexually Transmitted Infections Tend to Cause Infertility: An Evolutionary Hypothesis

Péter Apari,

Affiliation MTA-ELTE Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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João Dinis de Sousa,

Affiliations Laboratory for Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Centro de Malária e Outras Doenças Tropicais and Unidade de Microbiologia, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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Viktor Müller

* E-mail: mueller.viktor@gmail.com

Affiliations MTA-ELTE Theoretical Biology and Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, Parmenides Center for the Conceptual Foundations of Science, Pullach/Munich, Germany
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Why Sexually Transmitted Infections Tend to Cause Infertility: An Evolutionary Hypothesis

Péter Apari,
João Dinis de Sousa,
Viktor Müller

Published: August 7, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1004111

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Would this apply to egg-laying animals, and to birds in particular ? Posted by atnjoly on 02 Oct 2014 at 15:52 GMT

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