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The effect of point of expression on ESS sex ratios
1Department of Pure and Applied Biology, University of Leeds, U.K.
Journal of Theoretical Biology
|July 12, 1995
Abstract:
The sex ratio produced by an individual may be a consequence of relative frequencies of genotypes amongst offspring, or may result directly from parental (maternal) control. We analyse the evolutionarily stable sex ratio for a hypothetical organism in which both forms of sex ratio expression can occur. We prove that the point of expression of sex ratio does not affect the evolutionarily stable sex ratio for diploid hosts in populations infected with cytoplasmically inherited sex ratio distorters.