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Cooperative breeders adjust offspring sex ratios to produce helpful helpers
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Whether birds and mammals adaptively adjust their offspring sex ratio in response to their environment is much debated. A source of confusion is that different studies show different patterns, with sex ratio adjustment appearing to occur in some cases but not others. The extent to which this reflects interesting biological variation due to differences in the underlying selective forces, as opposed to statistical noise, is not clear. Cooperatively breeding species offer an opportunity to addre...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1086/491662
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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- American Naturalist Journal website
- Volume:
- 166
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 628-632
- Publication date:
- 2005-11-01
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0003-0147
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- English
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- ora:2817
- Deposit date:
- 2009-06-04
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- University of Chicago
- Copyright date:
- 2005
- Notes:
- Citation: Griffin, A. S., Sheldon, B. C. & West, S. A. (2005). 'Cooperative breeders adjust offspring sex ratios to produce helpful helpers', American Naturalist, 166(5), 628-632. [Available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/an/current]. © 2005 by The University of Chicago. N. B. Prof West is now based at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.
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