Facultative adjustment of the offspring sex ratio and male attractiveness: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Biological Reviews

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 108-134

  Booksmythe, Isobel ^a,b,c   Mautz, Brian ^a,b   Davis, Jacqueline ^a,d   Nakagawa, Shinichi ^e,f   Jennions, Michael D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

female choice; mate choice; maternal effects; sex allocation; sex ratio adjustment; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84945348961     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12220     Document Type: Article

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