When boys want to be girls: Effects of mating system and dispersal on parent-offspring sex ratio conflict

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-113

  Pen, Ido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inbreeding; Inclusive fitness; Kin selection; Monogamy; Parent offspring conflict; Polyandry; Polygyny; Sex allocation; Sex determination; Sex specific dispersal

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044447506     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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