Variable variation: Annual and seasonal changes in offspring sex ratio in a bat

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Barclay, Robert M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; FEMALE; INSECTIVORE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL MATURITY; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; FEMALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEX RATIO;

AVES; EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84860506954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036344     Document Type: Article

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