Sex-specific sibling interactions and offspring fitness in vertebrates: Patterns and implications for maternal sex ratios

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 207-217

  Uller, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Maternal effects; Sex allocation; Sex ratio; Sex specific sibling interaction; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

STEROID HORMONE;

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; COOPERATION; GENDER; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SIBLING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SIBLING RELATIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33746191959     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793105006962     Document Type: Review

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