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Winning the Genetic Lottery: Biasing Birth Sex Ratio Results in More Grandchildren
Population dynamics predicts that on average parents should invest equally in male and female offspring; similarly, the physiology of mammalian sex determination is supposedly stochastic, producing equal numbers of sons and daughters. However, a high quality parent can maximize fitness by biasing th...
Autores principales: | Thogerson, Collette M., Brady, Colleen M., Howard, Richard D., Mason, Georgia J., Pajor, Edmond A., Vicino, Greg A., Garner, Joseph P. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3707872/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23874458 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067867 |
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