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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780521665780
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.
? Covers the evolutionary ecology of sex ratios, sex allocation
and sex determination across plants, animals and microbes ?
Explores both the concepts and methodology of the research ?
Critical appraisal of current knowledge, problems and future
directions for research
Preface and acknowledgements
Part I. Sex Ratio Theory:
1. Models of sex ratio evolution Jon Seger and J. William
Stubblefield
2. Optimal sex allocation: steps towards a mechanistic
theory Ido R. Pen and Franz J. Weissing
Part II. Statistical Analysis of Sex Ratio Data:
3. Statistical analysis of sex ratios: an introduction
Kenneth Wilson and Ian C. W. Hardy
4. Analysis of sex ratios in social insects J. J. (Koos)
Boomsma and G?sta Nachman
5. Analysis of sex ratio variances and consequences of sex
allocation Sven Krackow, Evert Meelis and Ian C. W. Hardy
6. Comparative analysis of sex ratios Peter J. Mayhew and
Ido R. Pen
Part III. Genetics of Sex Ratio and Sex Determination:
7. Sex determining mechanisms in vertebrates Sarah B. M.
Kraak and Ido R. Pen
8. Sex determination in invertebrates James M. Cook
9. Sex ratio distorters and their detection Richard
Stouthamer, Gregory D. D. Hurst and J. A . J. (Hans) Breeuwer
Part IV. Animal Sex Ratios Under Different Life-Histories:
10. Sex ratios of parasitic Hymenoptera with unusual
life-histories Paul J. Ode and Martha S. Hunter
11. Sex ratio control in arrhenotkous and
pseudo-arrhenotokous mites Maurice W. Sabelis, C. J. (Kees)
Nagelkerke and J. A. J. (Hans) Breeuwer
12. Aphid sex ratios William A. Foster
13. Sex ratios in birds and mammals: can the hypotheses be
disentangled Andrew Cockburn, Sarah Legge and Michael C.
Double
14. Human sex ratios: adaptations and mechanisms, problems
and prospects John Lazarus
Part V. Sex ratios in other kingdoms:
15. Sex ratios of malaria parasites and related protozoa
Andrew Read, Todd G. Smith , Sean Nee and Stuart A. West
16. Sex allocation in hermaphroditic plants Peter G. L.
Klinkhamer and Tom J. de Jong
17. Sex ratios in dioecious plants Tom J. de Jong and Peter
G. L. Klinkhamer
Part VI. Applications of sex ratios:
18. Operational sex ratios and mating competition Charlotta
Kvarnemo and Ingrid Ahnestj?
19. Using sex ratios: the past and the future Steven Hecht
Orzack
20. Using sex ratios: why bother? Stuart A. West and Edward
Allen Herre.
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