Article
Information constraints and the precision of adaptation: sex ratio manipulation in wasps.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 13 Jul 2004
Shuker David M, West Stuart A
Abstract excerpt
Sex allocation theory offers excellent opportunities for studying the precision of adaptation. One of the best-supported areas in the field of sex allocation is Hamilton's theory of local mate competition, which predicts female-biased offspring sex ratios when populations are structured such that mating takes place locally before females disperse. As predicted by local mate competition theory, females of numerous...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Eye Color
- Female
- Litter Size
- Male
- Mutation
- Oviposition
- Sex Ratio
- Wasps