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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gardner, A, Reece, SE, West, SA
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2003