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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 30, Issue 8, Pages 438-440Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.05.006
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sexual transmission; mutualism; microbiome; sexual selection; polyandry; symbiosis
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- Division Of Environmental Biology [1354666] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Beneficial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are an understudied phenomenon with important implications for the evolution of cooperation and host reproductive behavior. Challenging the prevailing expectation that sexual transmission leads to pathogenesis, these symbionts provide new opportunities to examine how STIs might influence sexual selection and the evolution of promiscuity.
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