Journal article
Viviparity as a constraint on sex-ratio evolution.
- Abstract:
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In polytocous mammals, the sex ratio during gestation can influence a variety of morphological, physiological, and life-history traits because of steroid leakage between fetuses. Similar phenomena have also recently been described for a viviparous lizard. Some of these effects have important fitness consequences by influencing reproductive success later in life. Thus, biasing the sex ratio toward one sex may lead to a decreased fitness for the other sex, and therefore constrain the evolution ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
- Volume:
- 57
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 927-931
- Publication date:
- 2003-04-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1558-5646
- ISSN:
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0014-3820
- Source identifiers:
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209677
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:209677
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- pubs:209677
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- 2003
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