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Heritability of sex tendency in a harpacticoid copepod, Tigriopus californicus.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Sept 2002
Voordouw Maarten J, Anholt Bradley R
Abstract excerpt
Systems with genetic variation for the primary sex ratio are important for testing sex-ratio theory and for understanding how this variation is maintained. Evidence is presented for heritable variation of the primary sex ratio in the harpacticoid copepod Tigriopus californicus. Variation in the primary sex ratio among families cannot be accounted for by Mendelian segregation of sex chromosomes. The covariance in...
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