Sex ratio bias and reproductive strategies: What sex to produce when?

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 441-449

  Martin, Julien G A ^a,b   Festa Bianchet, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alberta; Bighorn sheep ewe; Canada; Cost of reproduction; Maternal state; Ovis Canadensis; Sex ratio bias; Trivers Willard hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATERNAL CARE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX RATIO; SHEEP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY WEIGHT; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SHEEP, BIGHORN;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS;

EID: 79955534375     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2413.1     Document Type: Article

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