Winning the Genetic Lottery: Biasing Birth Sex Ratio Results in More Grandchildren

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Thogerson, Collette M ^a   Brady, Colleen M ^b   Howard, Richard D ^c   Mason, Georgia J ^d   Pajor, Edmond A ^e   Vicino, Greg A ^f   Garner, Joseph P ^g  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; BREEDING METHOD; CARNIVORA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENDER BIAS; GENE LOSS; GRANDPARENT; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PERISSODACTYLA; PRIMATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREEDING; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MAMMALS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX PRESELECTION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84880030350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067867     Document Type: Article

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