Conflict over condition-dependent sex allocation can lead to mixed sex-determination systems

Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3229-3247

  Kuijper, Bram ^a,b   Pen, Ido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic conflict; Heterogamety; Parent offspring conflict; Sex chromosomes; Sex determination; Sex ratios, temperature

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SEX RATIO; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX RATIO; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84910594578     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12513     Document Type: Article

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