Sex ratio bias in the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus: Adaptive allocation or sex-specific offspring mortality?

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 363-372

  House, Clarissa M ^a   Simmons, Leigh W ^b   Kotiaho, Janne S ^c   Tomkins, Joseph L ^b   Hunt, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Nutritional resources; Onthophagus taurus; Sex ratio; Sex specific mortality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BEETLE; DATA SET; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; LARVA; MATING BEHAVIOR; MORTALITY; NUTRITION; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

COLEOPTERA; ONTHOPHAGUS TAURUS;

EID: 79951958355     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-010-9423-0     Document Type: Article

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