Temperature-dependent sex ratio in a bird

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-33

  Göth, Ann ^a   Booth, David T ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental sex determination; Megapode; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

BIRD; INCUBATION; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ALECTURA LATHAMI; ANIMALIA; AVES; MEGAPODIIDAE; REPTILIA;

EID: 27444435397     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0247     Document Type: Article

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