Now available ahead of print: "Five Decades of #Data Yield No Support for #AdaptiveBiasing of #Offspring #SexRatio in Wild #Baboons (Papio cynocephalus)" by Matthew N. Zipple, Elizabeth A. Archie, Jenny Tung, Raphael S. Mututua, J. Kinyua Warutere, I. Long’ida Siodi, Jeanne Altmann, and Susan C. Alberts
#data #adaptivebiasing #offspring #sexratio #baboons
New paper: "W. D. Hamilton and the golden sex ratio" (#OpenAccess)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2023.111599
#GoldenRatio #SexRatio #SexAllocation #Haplodiploidy #MaleHaploidy#Image https://hotpot.ai/art-generator #OA
#openaccess #goldenratio #sexratio #sexallocation #haplodiploidy #malehaploidy #oa
New paper: "The rarer-sex effect" (#OpenAccess)
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2021.0500
Part of a #PhilTransB theme issue on "Half a century of evolutionary games"
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2023/378/1876 #SexRatio #SexAllocation #Evolution #GameTheory #UnbeatableStrategy @rsocpublishing #OA
#openaccess #philtransb #sexratio #sexallocation #Evolution #gametheory #unbeatablestrategy #oa
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New paper: "The rarer-sex effect" (#OpenAccess)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0500
Part of a #PhilTransB theme issue on "Half a century of evolutionary games"
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2023/378/1876 #SexRatio #SexAllocation #Evolution #GameTheory #UnbeatableStrategy @RSocPublishing @univofstandrews #OA
#oa #unbeatablestrategy #gametheory #evolution #sexallocation #sexratio #philtransb #openaccess
#Gamete production by #meiosis is expected to be balanced with even proportion of y-chromosome bearing #sperm (leading to son in #mammal). This new study in #mouse shows that sperm #sexratio can be tweaked in response to sexual competition. #science #biology
📄 Firman et al. (2020) Sperm sex ratio adjustment in a mammal: perceived male competition leads to elevated proportions of female-producing sperm. Biology Letters 16:20190929 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0929
#Gamete #meiosis #sperm #mammal #mouse #sexratio #science #biology