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A father effect explains sex-ratio bias.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 30 Aug 2017

Malo Aurelio F, Martinez-Pastor Felipe, Garcia-Gonzalez Francisco, Garde Julián, Ballou Jonathan D, Lacy Robert C

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Sex ratio allocation has important fitness consequences, and theory predicts that parents should adjust offspring sex ratio in cases where the fitness returns of producing male and female offspring vary. The ability of fathers to bias offspring sex ratios has traditionally been dismissed given the expectation of an equal proportion of X- and Y-chromosome-bearing sperm (CBS) in ejaculates due to segregation of sex...

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PMID: 28855362
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1159
PMCID: PMC5577485

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