Experimental alteration of litter sex ratios in a mammal

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1632, 2008, Pages 323-327

  Cameron, Elissa Z ^a   Lemons, Patrick R ^b   Bateman, Philip W ^a   Bennett, Nigel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Glucose; Maternal investment; Sex allocation; Trivers Willard hypothesis

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLUCOSE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAMMAL; MATERNAL CARE; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 37349129190     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1401     Document Type: Article

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