Adjustment of offspring sex ratios in relation to the availability of resources for philopatric offspring in the common brushtail possum

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1480, 2001, Pages 2001-2005

  Johnson, C N ^a   Clinchy, M ^a   Taylor, A C ^a   Krebs, C J ^a   Jarman, P J ^a   Payne, A ^a   Ritchie, E G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Local resource competition; Marsupials; Philopatry; Sex allocation; Trichosurus vulpecula

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; MARSUPIAL; PHILOPATRY; RESOURCE USE; SEX RATIO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO;

EID: 0035823712     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1723     Document Type: Article

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