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Sex allocation
Sex allocation is the apportioning of parental resources to male versus female offspring in a sexually reproducing species. Sex allocation theory assumes that natural selection favours parents that modify their investment into male and female offspring in such a way that it maximizes the parent’s fitness (Fisher 1930; Charnov 1982). Fisher’s equal allocation theory (1930) states that selection ...
متن کاملSexual conflict and sex allocation.
There was an error in the above paper on page 660, in §2a. The fifth sentence in this section should have stated: 'A startling example of sibling – sibling sexual conflict is provided by Korsten et al. (2009) who show that female Soay sheep with a male twin have a lower birth weight than females born with a female twin.' Sexual conflict in twins: male co-twins reduce fitness of female Soay sheep.
متن کاملSex Allocation and Sexual Selection
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متن کاملStuart Pimm
environment for the Sussex Emerald here, but conservationists cannot guarantee the long-term future of the species, partly because it is not known what keeps the moths so closely linked to the power station. The significance of Dungeness will also be marked in other plans for later this year. The site is set to be the site of the reintroduction of a native species of bee. The shorthaired bumble...
متن کاملStuart Schreiber
Stuart Schreiber is an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Morris Loeb Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. His chemical biology research, which uses small molecules derived from diversity-oriented synthesis, observational screens and information science, has uncovered principles that underlie information transfer and storage i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Integrative and Comparative Biology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1540-7063,1557-7023
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icq043