Sex Ratios
Subtitle: Concepts and Research Methods
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780521818964
Subjects: Animal ecology; Science/Mathematics; Behavior Genetics; Organic Evolution; Science; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science / Biology; Sex ratio; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics
First sentence: Our understanding of sex ratio evolution depends strongly on models that identify: (1) constraints on the production of male and female offspring, and (2) fitness consequences entailed by the production of different attainable brood sex ratios.