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All authors contributed equally to this manuscript.

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  • Science & Technology
  • Life Sciences & Biomedicine
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Multidisciplinary Sciences
  • Science & Technology - Other Topics
  • evolution
  • infectious agents
  • sexual transmission
  • econiche
  • SIMPLEX-VIRUS TYPE-1
  • COMPLETE GENOME SEQUENCE
  • HEPATITIS-A VIRUS
  • NEISSERIA-GONORRHOEAE
  • MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM
  • CHLAMYDIA-TRACHOMATIS
  • PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS
  • CALYMMATOBACTERIUM-GRANULOMATIS
  • MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY
  • NONPANDEMIC HIV-1

The evolution of infectious agents in relation to sex in animals and humans: brief discussions of some individual organisms

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Proceedings Title:

EVOLUTION OF INFECTIOUS AGENTS IN RELATION TO SEX

Conference Name:

Conference on the Evolution of Infectious Agents in Relation to Sex

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Bjorkborn, SWEDEN

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Volume 1230 | Issue 1

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Conference | Post-print: After Peer Review

Abstract:

The following series of concise summaries addresses the evolution of infectious agents in relation to sex in animals and humans from the perspective of three specific questions: (1) what have we learned about the likely origin and phylogeny, up to the establishment of the infectious agent in the genital econiche, including the relative frequency of its sexual transmission; (2) what further research is needed to provide additional knowledge on some of these evolutionary aspects; and (3) what evolutionary considerations might aid in providing novel approaches to the more practical clinical and public health issues facing us currently and in the future?

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© 2011 New York Academy of Sciences.

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