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Extrinsic Modification of Vertebrate Sex Ratios by Climatic Variation

Eric Post, Mads C Forchhammer, Nils C Stenseth

    The American Naturalist
    |March 27, 2018
    PubMed
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    Climate change, specifically warmer and snowy winters, influences red deer sex ratios, leading to more male offspring. This challenges existing theories on maternal control of offspring sex allocation.

    Keywords:
    Cervus elaphusenvironmentfitnessmaternal effectssex ratio evolution

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