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Evolutionary and demographic consequences of temperature-induced masculinization under climate warming: the effects of mate choice.
BMC ecology and evolution - 4 Feb 2021
Nemesházi Edina, Kövér Szilvia, Bókony Veronika
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: One of the dangers of global climate change to wildlife is distorting sex ratios by temperature-induced sex reversals in populations where sex determination is not exclusively genetic, potentially leading to population collapse and/or sex-determination system transformation. Here we introduce a new concept on how these outcomes may be altered by mate choice if sex-chromosome-linked phenotypic traits...
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