Sex ratios : concepts and research methods / / edited by Ian C.W. Hardy [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 424 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 576.8/55
• Soggetto topico: Sex ratio
• Persona (resp. second.): HardyIan
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di contenuto: Sex ratio theory -- Models of sex ratio evolution / Jon Seger, J. William Stubblefield -- Optimal sex allocation: steps towards a mechanistic theory / Ido Pen, Franz J. Weissing -- Statistical analysis of sex ratio data -- Statistical analysis of sex ratios: an introduction / Kenneth Wilson, Ian C.W. Hardy -- Analysis of sex ratios in social insects / Jacobus J. Boomsma, Gosta Nachman -- Analysis of sex ratio variances and sequences of sex allocation / Sven Krackow, Evert Meelis, Ian C.W. Hardy -- Comparative analysis of sex ratios / Peter J. Mayhew, Ido Pen -- Genetics of sex ratio and sex determination -- Sex-determining mechanisms in vertebrates / Sarah B.M. Kraak, Ido Pen -- Sex determination in invertebrates / James M. Cook -- Sex ratio distorters and their detection / Richard Stouthamer, Gregory D.D. Hurst, Johannes A.J. Breeuwer -- Animal sex ratios under different life-histories -- Sex ratios of parasitic Hymenoptera with unusual life-histories / Paul J. Ode, Martha S. Hunter -- Sex ratio control in arrhenotokous and pseudo-arrhenotokous mites / Maurice W. Sabelis, Cornelis J. Nagelkerke, Johannes A.J. Breeuwer -- Aphid sex ratios / William A. Foster -- Sex ratios in birds and mammals: can the hypotheses be disentangled? / Andrew Cockburn, Sarah Legge, Michael C. Double -- Human sex ratios: adaptations and mechanisms, problems and prospects / John Lazarus -- Sex ratios in plants and protozoa -- Sex ratios of malaria parasites and related protozoa / Andrew F. Read, Todd G. Smith, Sean Nee, Stuart A. West.
• Sommario/riassunto: Covering sex allocation, sex determination and operational sex ratios, this multi-author volume provides both a conceptual context and an instruction in methods for many aspects of sex ratio research. Theory, statistical analysis and genetics are each explained and discussed in the first three sections. The remaining chapters each focus on research in one of a wide spectrum of animal, plant and microbial taxa, including sex ratio distorting bacteria in invertebrates, malarial parasites, birds, human and other mammals, giving critical appraisals of such research. Sex Ratios: Concepts and Research Methods is primarily intended for graduate and professional behavioural and evolutionary ecologists in this field, but it will also be useful to biologists building evolutionary models, and researchers analysing data involving proportions or comparisons across phylogenetically related species.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sex ratios
• ISBN: 1-107-13559-1; 1-280-43051-6; 9786610430512; 1-139-14620-3; 0-511-17047-5; 0-511-06147-1; 0-511-05514-5; 0-511-29754-8; 0-511-54205-4; 0-511-06993-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783113703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II