Testing secondary sex ratio bias hypotheses in white‐tailed deer in Mississippi, USA

Testing secondary sex ratio bias hypotheses in white‐tailed deer in Mississippi, USA

Abstract Natural selection favors individuals with the highest inclusive fitness (i.e., total number of descendants). In cases where one sex is more productive, one or both parents may maximize their inclusive fitness by investing in the offspring of the more prolific sex. Such preferential producti...

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Main Authors: Jane E. Dentinger, Lacy A. Dolan Todt, Emma A. Schultz, James N. Helferich, Stephen Demarais, Randy W. DeYoung, William T. McKinley, Bronson K. Strickland, Melanie R. Boudreau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2024-10-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
Fisherian frequency dependence
local resource competition hypothesis
Odocoileus virginianus
Trivers–Willard hypothesis
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70296
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