Cooperative interactions among females can lead to even more extraordinary sex ratios
Abstract Hamilton's local mate competition theory provided an explanation for extraordinary female‐biased sex ratios in a range of organisms. When mating takes place locally, in structured populations, a female‐biased sex ratio is favored to reduce competition between related males, and to prov...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Evolution Letters |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/evl3.217 |