Do female roe deer in good condition produce more sons than daughters

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 189-193

  Wauters, Luc A ^a   de Crombrugghe, Simon A ^b   Nour, Nadia ^a   Matthysen, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Station de Recherches Forestières   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Capreolus capreolus; Female body mass; Offspring sex ratio; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS;

BODY MASS; ROE DEER; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

EID: 0028978799     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: 14320762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00176716     Document Type: Article

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