Optimal Sex Ratios in Structured Populations
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Optimal sex ratios in structured populations.
In this paper, we develop a general method to determine evolutionary equilibrium sex ratios and to check evolutionary stability, continuous stability and invadability in exact genetic models with or without dominance. This method is then applied to three kinds of models for structured populations: the first one concerns Hamilton's LMC model, except that only a fraction beta of female offspring ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Theoretical Biology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2000.2160