ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2017
A father effect explains sex-ratio bias.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Sperm bauplan and function and underlying processes of sperm formation and selection.Physiological reviews · 2022Review
- Y/X-Chromosome-Bearing Sperm Shows Elevated Ratio in the Left but Not the Right Testes in Healthy Mice.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Sperm sex ratio adjustment in a mammal: perceived male competition leads to elevated proportions of female-producing sperm.Biology letters · 2020Article
- The effects of inbreeding on covering success, gestation length and foal sex ratio in Australian thoroughbred horses.BMC genetics · 2020Article
- Exposure to male-dominated environments during development influences sperm sex ratios at sexual maturity.Evolution letters · 2019Article
- The global male-bias in sex ratio at birth is sustained by the sex ratio genotypes of replacement offspring.Genetica · 2019Article
- Drivers of sex ratio bias in the eastern bongo: lower inbreeding increases the probability of being born male.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Sexual conflict in action: An antagonistic relationship between maternal and paternal sex allocation in the tammar wallaby,Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Secondary sex ratio in assisted reproduction: an analysis of 1 376 454 treatment cycles performed in the UK.Human reproduction open · 2019Article
- Is biasing offspring sex ratio adaptive? A test of Fisher's principle across multiple generations of a wild mammal in a fluctuating environment.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Male spiders control offspring sex ratio through greater production of female-determining sperm.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- A father effect explains sex-ratio bias.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Sex ratio allocation has important fitness consequences, and theory predicts that parents should adjust offspring sex ratio in cases where the fitness returns of producing male and female offspring vary. The ability of fathers to bias offspring sex ratios has traditionally been dismissed given the expectation of an equal proportion of X- and Y-chromosome-bearing sperm (CBS) in ejaculates due to segregation of sex chromosomes at meiosis. This expectation has been recently refuted. Here we used
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