Adaptive secondary sex ratio adjustments via sex-specific infanticide in a bird

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 1744-1747

  Heinsohn, Robert ^a   Langmore, Naomi E ^b   Cockburn, Andrew ^b   Kokko, Hanna ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; PARROT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; PARROTS; SEX FACTORS; SEX RATIO;

AVES; ECLECTUS; ECLECTUS RORATUS; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 80054982774     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.064     Document Type: Article

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