Article
Sex ratio evolution under probabilistic sex determination.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2011
Paixão Tiago, Phadke Sujal S, Azevedo Ricardo B R, Zufall Rebecca A
Abstract excerpt
Sex allocation theory has been remarkably successful at explaining the prevalence of even sex ratios in natural populations and at identifying specific conditions that can result in biased sex ratios. Much of this theory focuses on parental sex determination (SD) strategies. Here, we consider instead the evolutionary causes and consequences of mixed offspring SD strategies, in which the genotype of an individual...
Topics
- Alleles
- Biological Evolution
- Genotype
- Population Density
- Selection, Genetic
- Sex Ratio
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