Detecting non-binomial sex allocation when developmental mortality operates
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Detecting non-binomial sex allocation when developmental mortality operates.
Optimal sex allocation theory is one of the most intricately developed areas of evolutionary ecology. Under a range of conditions, particularly under population sub-division, selection favours sex being allocated to offspring non-randomly, generating non-binomial variances of offspring group sex ratios. Detecting non-binomial sex allocation is complicated by stochastic developmental mortality, ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Theoretical Biology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.08.008