Sex‐based differences in severity and mortality in COVID‐19

M Alwani, A Yassin, RM Al‐Zoubi… - Reviews in Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The current coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) pandemic caused by novel severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) has a male bias in severity and …

Sex differences in immune responses: Hormonal effects, antagonistic selection, and evolutionary consequences

J Roved, H Westerdahl, D Hasselquist - Hormones and behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Males and females differ in both parasite load and the strength of immune responses and
these effects have been verified in humans and other vertebrates. Sex hormones act as …

Trade-offs (and constraints) in organismal biology

T Garland Jr, CJ Downs… - … and biochemical zoology, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Trade-offs and constraints are inherent to life, and studies of these phenomena play a
central role in both organismal and evolutionary biology. Trade-offs can be defined …

Sex differences in adult lifespan and aging rates of mortality across wild mammals

JF Lemaître, V Ronget, M Tidière… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
In human populations, women consistently outlive men, which suggests profound biological
foundations for sex differences in survival. Quantifying whether such sex differences are also …

Worse progression of COVID‐19 in men: is testosterone a key factor?

VA Giagulli, E Guastamacchia, T Magrone, E Jirillo… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS‐CoV‐2)
disease 2019 (COVID‐19) seems to have a worse clinical course among infected men …

The looming effects of estrogen in Covid-19: a rocky rollout

HM Al-Kuraishy, AI Al-Gareeb, H Faidah… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, an intensive number of studies have been performed
to understand in a deeper way the mechanisms behind better or worse clinical outcomes …

Netting the stress responses in fish

JC Balasch, L Tort - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In the last decade, the concept of animal stress has been stressed thin to accommodate the
effects of short-term changes in cell and tissue physiology, major behavioral syndromes in …

An evolutionary perspective on appearance enhancement behavior

AC Davis, S Arnocky - Archives of sexual behavior, 2022 - Springer
Researchers have highlighted numerous sociocultural factors that have been shown to
underpin human appearance enhancement practices, including the influence of peers …

A practical guide to question formation, systematic searching and study screening for literature reviews in ecology and evolution

YZ Foo, RE O'Dea, J Koricheva… - Methods in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Well‐conducted systematic reviews are invaluable for synthesising research findings. The
conclusions of a review depend on how the research question was formulated, how relevant …

Predictors of facial attractiveness and health in humans

YZ Foo, LW Simmons, G Rhodes - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Facial attractiveness has been suggested to provide signals of biological quality, particularly
health, in humans. The attractive traits that have been implicated as signals of biological …