Deer destiny determined by density
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1999
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Cockburn, Andrew
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Macmillan Publishers Ltd
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Theory predicts that socially dominant females will produce more sons than daughters. But when times are hard, the higher growth rate of males means that proportionately more will die during development. New work shows that, in red deer, these effects can operate in concert.
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Keywords: dominance; maternal effect; sex ratio; deer; life cycle; nonhuman; population density; priority journal; progeny; sex ratio; short survey; Animals; Deer; Female; Male; Models, Biological; Population Density; Reproduction; Sex Differentiation; Sex Ratio; S
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