Male pygmy hippopotamus influence offspring sex ratio

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Saragusty, Joseph ^a   Hermes, Robert ^a   Hofer, Heribert ^a   Bouts, Tim ^b,c   Göritz, Frank ^a   Hildebrandt, Thomas B ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOEROPSIS LIBERIENSIS; EJACULATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

HEXAPROTODON; HEXAPROTODON LIBERIENSIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MAMMALS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX FACTORS; SEX RATIO; SPERMATOZOA; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84857716587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1700     Document Type: Article

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