Even more extreme fertility insurance and the sex ratios of protozoan blood parasites.
Theory developed for malaria and other protozoan parasites predicts that the evolutionarily stable gametocyte sex ratio (z*; proportion of gametocytes that are male) should be related to the inbreeding rate (f) by the equation z*=(1-f)/2. Although this equation has been applied with some success, it...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2003
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