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SynthesisProceedings. Biological sciences2024

Evolutionary drivers of sex-specific parasite prevalence in wild birds.

José O Valdebenito, William Jones, Tamás Székely

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Synthesis in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Different age, different blood parasites -International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025
    Review
  4. Molecular and histopathological characterization ofFrontiers in veterinary science · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

José O ValdebenitoDebrecen Biodiversity Research Centre, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-6709-6305
William JonesDebrecen Biodiversity Research Centre, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-3058-0072
Tamás SzékelyDebrecen Biodiversity Research Centre, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.

Funding

Non-US Government Research Support type
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Males and females often differ in ecology, behaviour and lifestyle, and these differences are expected to lead to sex differences in parasite susceptibility. However, neither the sex differences in parasite prevalence, nor their ecological and evolutionary drivers have been investigated across a broad range of taxa using phylogenetically corrected analyses. Using the most extensive dataset yet that includes 755 prevalence estimates from 151 wild bird species in a meta-analytic framework, here we compare sex differences in blood and gastrointestinal parasites. We show that despite sex differences in parasite infection being frequently reported in the literature, only

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Animals, WildBird DiseasesBirdsProtozoan Infections, AnimalAnimalsFemaleHaemosporidaMalePrevalenceSeasonsSex Factorshost–parasitelife-historymalariaseasonalitysex rolessexual dimorphism

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PMID39106952
PMCPMC11303024

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