Pattern does not equal process: Exactly when is sex environmentally determined?

American Naturalist

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 676-683

  Valenzuela, Nicole ^a   Adams, Dean C ^a   Janzen, Fredric J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Criteria; Genotypic sex determination; Identification; Model; Temperature dependent sex determination; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037394294     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/368292     Document Type: Note

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