Sex and Sex Ratio

11/18/02


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Table of Contents

Sex and Sex Ratio

What is sex?

Why Sex? The Costs.

Why Sex? The Benefits.

Evolutionary Arms Race

Sex determination

Chromosomal Sex Determination

Chromosomal Sex Determination

Environmental Sex Determination

Social Sex Determination

Sex Ratio Allocation: Null Model

Adaptive Sex Ratio Bias

Trivers-Willard Effect

Condition-dependent sex allocation in red deer

Dominance dependent sex allocation in yellow baboons

Local Mate Competition

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Local Resource Competition

Local Resource Enhancement

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Author: Jerry Wilkinson

Email: gw10@umail.umd.edu

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