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Maternal investment in relation to sex ratio and offspring number in a small mammal – a case for Trivers and Willard theory?

1. Optimal parental sex allocation depends on the balance between the costs of investing into sons vs. daughters and the benefits calculated as fitness returns. The outcome of this equation varies with the life history of the species, as well as the state of the individual and the quality of the env...

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Autores principales: Koskela, Esa, Mappes, Tapio, Niskanen, Tuuli, Rutkowska, Joanna
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19549147
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01574.x