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Inbreeding and selection on sex ratio in the bark beetle Xylosandrus germanus.
BMC evolutionary biology - 13 Dec 2011
Keller Laurent, Peer Katharina, Bernasconi Christian, Taborsky Michael, Shuker David M
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BACKGROUND: Local Mate Competition (LMC) theory predicts a female should produce a more female-biased sex ratio if her sons compete with each other for mates. Because it provides quantitative predictions that can be experimentally tested, LMC is a textbook example of the predictive power of evolutionary theory. A limitation of many earlier studies in the field is that the population structure and mating system of...
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