Snow skinks (Niveoscincus ocellatus) do not shift their sex allocation patterns in response to mating history

Behaviour

Volumn 146, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1405-1422

  While, Geoffrey M ^a   Wapstra, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Copulation marks; Mating history; Operational sex ratio; Sex allocation; Snow skinks

Indexed keywords

NIVEOSCINCUS OCELLATUS; SCINCIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349439389     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853909X436254     Document Type: Article

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