White-tailed deer vary offspring sex-ratio according to maternal condition and age
dc.contributor.author | Burke, Russell L. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Birch, James M. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-08T19:27:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-08T19:27:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1995-12 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Burke, Russell L.; Birch, James M.; (1995). "White-tailed deer vary offspring sex-ratio according to maternal condition and age." Ecological Research 10(3): 351-357. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/41616> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0912-3814 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1440-1703 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/41616 | |
dc.description.abstract | We tested two models of adaptive offspring sex-ratio that predict opposite optimal reproductive strategies for female white-tail deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ). Trivers and Willard's model predicts that does (females) in particularly good condition should produce sons, and Williams refined their model to make specific predictions about optimal offspring number/sex choices. Verme's model results in very different predictions because of very different assumptions about which sex of offspring can best benefit from high levels of maternal resources. We found clear support for the Trivers and Willard/Williams model when we analyzed data from road-killed does, and we furthermore question several of the assumptions of the Verme model. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Springer-Verlag; Ecological Society of Japan | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Ecology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Forestry | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Optimality Model | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Reproduction | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Plant Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Behavioural Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Zoology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Adaptation | en_US |
dc.title | White-tailed deer vary offspring sex-ratio according to maternal condition and age | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Natural Resources and Environment | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Museum of Zoology and Department of Biology, University of Michigan, 481091079, Ann Arbor, MI, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Museum of Zoology and Department of Biology, University of Michigan, 481091079, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, 48109-1115, Ann Arbor, MI, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/41616/1/11284_2006_Article_BF02347861.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02347861 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Ecological Research | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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