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ArticleBehavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology

Limited evidence of biased offspring sex allocation in a cavity-nesting conspecific brood parasite.

Caitlin P Wells, Bruce E Lyon, Caroline M Thow, Tez Stair, Melissa Jones, Mitch Hinton, John M Eadie

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Article in Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Caitlin P WellsDepartment of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology; Colorado State University, 901 Amy Van Dyken Way, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8840-3095
Bruce E LyonDepartment of Ecology and Evolution; University of California, UCSC/Coastal Biology Building 130 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA.
Caroline M ThowDepartment of Ecology and Evolution; University of California, UCSC/Coastal Biology Building 130 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA.
Tez StairDepartment of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology; University of California, 1088 Academic Surge, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Melissa JonesDepartment of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology; University of California, 1088 Academic Surge, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Mitch HintonDepartment of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology; University of California, 1088 Academic Surge, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
John M EadieDepartment of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology; University of California, 1088 Academic Surge, Davis, CA 95616, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9573-2703

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sex allocation theory predicts that mothers should bias investment in offspring toward the sex that yields higher fitness returns; one such bias may be a skewed offspring sex ratio. Sex allocation is well-studied in birds with cooperative breeding systems, with theory on local resource enhancement and production of helpers at the nest, but little theoretical or empirical work has focused on birds with brood parasitic breeding systems. Wood ducks (

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alternative reproductive tacticdensityfemale philopatrylocal resource competitionlocal resource enhancementnest box studyoffspring sex ratiowaterfowl

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