Successful sons or superior daughters: Sex-ratio variation in springbok

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1561, 2005, Pages 375-381

  Kruger O ^a   Radford, A N ^a   Anderson, C ^b   Liversidge, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b McGregor Museum   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Embryo mass; Maternal condition; Rainfall; Sex ratio; Trivers Willard hypothesis

Indexed keywords

POPULATION ECOLOGY; RAINFALL; SEX RATIO; UNGULATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FETUS WEIGHT; MALE; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; POLYGYNY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX RATIO; SPRINGBOK; AGE; ANIMAL; ANTELOPE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANTIDORCAS MARSUPIALIS; VERTEBRATA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; BODY CONSTITUTION; CLIMATE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO LOSS; FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREGNANCY; SEX RATIO; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 16844365910     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2943     Document Type: Article

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