Body attributes of both parents jointly affect offspring sex allocation in a socially monogamous, size-monomorphic passerine

Current Zoology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 271-277

  Lu, Xin ^a   Zeng, Xianhai ^a   Du, Bo ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brood sex ratio; Parental quality; Size assortative mating; White rumped snowfinch

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877782823     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/59.2.271     Document Type: Article

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