Offspring sex ratio studies of mammals: Does publication depend upon the quality of the research or the direction of the results?

Ecoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 42-44

  Festa Bianchet, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dominance; Publication bias; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030019554     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1996.11682313     Document Type: Article

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