Abstract
A two-locus diploid model is developed in order to analyze stable mother's and offsprings' strategies concerning the offsprings' sex determination and progeny's sex ratio when the cost of rearing a male offspring is different from the cost of rearing a female offspring. If the ratio in cost is λ: 1, then the resulting stable sex ratio in the population lies between the value l: λ, obtained with full mother's control, and a l: λ1/2, obtained with no maternal interference. -from Authors
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 954-972 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | American Naturalist |
| Volume | 138 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - 1991 |