Gene-culture coevolution and sex ratios: II. Sex-chromosomal distorters and cultural preferences for offspring sex

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-15

  Kumm, Jochen ^a   Feldman, Marcus W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL PREFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SEX-CHROMOSOMAL DISTORTER;

EID: 0031214032     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.1997.1304     Document Type: Article

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