Monitoring juveniles across years reveals non-Fisherian sex ratios in a reptile with environmental sex determination

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1499-1510

  Freedberg, Steven ^a   Bowne, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental sex determination; Mark recapture; Sex ratio; Turtle

Indexed keywords

CHRYSEMYS; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 33845927998     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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