Do females adjust the sex of their offspring in relation to the breeding sex ratio?

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1104-1109

  Bensch, S ^a   Westerdahl, H ^a   Hansson, B ^a   Hasselquist, D ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Demographic stochasticity; Population size; RAPD; Sex ratios

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; SEX RATIO; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0032696706     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.1999.00108.x     Document Type: Article

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