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...
Những tác giả chính: | Griffin, A, Sheldon, B, West, S |
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Tác giả khác: | American Society of Naturalists |
Định dạng: | Journal article |
Ngôn ngữ: | English |
Được phát hành: |
University of Chicago Press
2005
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