Does the Mother or Father Determine the Offspring Sex Ratio? Investigating the Relationship between Maternal Digit Ratio and Offspring Sex Ratio

OBJECTIVE: In mammals, high parental testosterone levels present around the time of conception are thought to skew offspring sex ratio toward sons. The second to fourth digit ratio (digit ratio) is now widely accepted as a negative correlate of prenatal testosterone. Thus, we investigated the associ...

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Autores principales: Kim, Tae Beom, Oh, Jin Kyu, Kim, Kwang Taek, Yoon, Sang Jin, Kim, Soo Woong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4648576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26575995
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143054