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Developmental mortality increases sex-ratio bias of a size-dimorphic bark beetle
1. Given sexual size dimorphism, differential mortality owing to body size can lead to sex-biased mortality, proximately biasing sex ratios. This mechanism may apply to mountain pine beetles, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, which typically have female-biased adult populations (2 : 1) with females l...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4207193/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25400320 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/een.12108 |