Sex-ratio control erodes sexual selection, revealing evolutionary feedback from adaptive plasticity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 38, 2011, Pages 15925-15930

  Fawcett, Tim W ^a,b   Kuijper, Bram ^a,c   Weissing, Franz J ^a   Pen, Ido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolutionary equilibrium; Fisher process; Good genes; Phenotypic plasticity; Sex ratio bias

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FITNESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORNAMENTAL SPECIES; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX FACTORS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 80053158025     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105721108     Document Type: Article

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