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Inbreeding and selection on sex ratio in the bark beetle Xylosandrus germanus

BACKGROUND: Local Mate Competition (LMC) theory predicts a female should produce a more female-biased sex ratio if her sons compete with each other for mates. Because it provides quantitative predictions that can be experimentally tested, LMC is a textbook example of the predictive power of evolutio...

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Autores principales: Keller, Laurent, Peer, Katharina, Bernasconi, Christian, Taborsky, Michael, Shuker, David M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3265449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22166098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-359