Cooperative breeders adjust offspring sex ratios to produce helpful helpers

Whether birds and mammals adaptively adjust their offspring sex ratio in response to their environment is much debated. A source of confusion is that different studies show different patterns, with sex ratio adjustment appearing to occur in some cases but not others. The extent to which this reflect...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Griffin, A, Sheldon, B, West, S
Other Authors: American Society of Naturalists
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press 2005
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