Body attributes of both parents jointly affect offspring sex allocation in a socially monogamous, size-monomorphic passerine
Theory predicts that because males are more variable in reproductive success than females, a mother should produce more sons to maximize fitness return from the sex allocation if she is of high-quality (the female quality hypothesis) or mates with a high-quality male (the male quality hypothesis). W...
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Oxford University Press
2013-04-01
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| Series: | Current Zoology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.currentzoology.org/paperdetail.asp?id=12195 |