Even more extreme fertility insurance and the sex ratios of protozoan blood parasites

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 223, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 515-521

  Gardner, A ^a   Reece, S E ^a   West, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fertility insurance; Local mate competition; Malaria; Sex allocation; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

MODELING; PARASITE; PROTOZOAN; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SEX RATIO; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 0038042427     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5193(03)00142-5     Document Type: Article

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