Sex Ratios
Subtitle: Concepts and Research Methods
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780521665780
Subjects: Animal behaviour; Animal ecology; Genetics (non-medical); Science; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Psychology; Sex ratio; Life Sciences - Ecology; Research & Methodology; Science / Biology; Life Sciences - Evolution; Life Sciences - Biology - General
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.