Male-biased offspring sex ratio in the House Wren

Condor

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 881-885

  Janota, Shannon M ^a   Soukup, Sheryl Swartz ^b   Thompson, Charles F ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

House Wren; Offspring sex ratio; Season; Sex ratio adjustment; Trivers Willard hypothesis; Troglodytes aedon

Indexed keywords

TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTES AEDON;

EID: 24744459714     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2002)104[0881:MBOSRI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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