Local resource competition and local resource enhancement shape primate birth sex ratios

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1644, 2008, Pages 1761-1765

  Silk, Joan B ^a   Brown, Gillian R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Local resource competition; Local resource enhancement; Primates; Sex allocation; Sex ratio; Sex ratio adjustment

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATERNAL HEALTH; MODELING; PRIMATE; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SIZE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; BIRTH; BREEDING; PREDICTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; THEORETICAL STUDY;

INVERTEBRATA; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 45249116974     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0340     Document Type: Article

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