Sex ratios : concepts and research methods / edited by Ian C.W. Hardy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hardy, Ian, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex ratio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 424 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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

OCLC:

559522457