Sons accelerate maternal aging in a wild mammal
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Maternal condition and previous reproduction interact to affect offspring sex in a wild mammal.
Trivers and Willard proposed that offspring sex ratio should vary with maternal condition when condition, meant as maternal capacity to care, has different fitness consequences for sons and daughters. In polygynous and dimorphic species, mothers in good condition should preferentially produce sons, whereas mothers in poor condition should produce more daughters. Despite its logical appeal, supp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1914654117