Adaptive non-Fisherian sex ratios in a patchily distributed population with outbreeding

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 431-445

  Pienaar, Jason ^a,b   Greeff, Jaco M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased sex ratios; Fig wasps

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; WASP;

AGAONIDAE; OTITESELLA PSEUDOSERRATA;

EID: 33746144813     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-006-0012-1     Document Type: Article

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