Maternal rank and local resource competition do not predict birth sex ratios in wild baboons

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1565, 2005, Pages 859-864

  Silk, Joan B ^a   Willoughby, Elisabeth ^a   Brown, Gillian R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baboons; Local resource competition; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEX RATIO;

ARTICLE; BABOON; COMPETITION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; META ANALYSIS; PAPIO; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

PAPIO; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAPIO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX RATIO;

EID: 22844437631     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2994     Document Type: Article

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