Litter size and fetal sex ratio adjustment in a highly polytocous species: The wild boar

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 427-432

  Servanty, Sabrina ^a,b   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^b   Allainé, Dominique ^b   Brandt, Serge ^a   Baubet, Eric ^a  

^a OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Litter size; Primary sex ratio; Sex ratio variation; Sus scrofa scrofa; Trivers and Willard model; Williams model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LITTER SIZE; MATERNAL CARE; PIG; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX RATIO;

MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA SCROFA;

EID: 33847650940     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arl099     Document Type: Article

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