C. W. Hardy (ed.)

Sex Ratios

Herausgeber: Hardy, Ian C. W.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 845g
• ISBN-13: 9780521665780
• ISBN-10: 0521665787
• Artikelnr.: 20975701

Autorenporträt

IAN HARDY is Senior Research Fellow in Biological Sciences at the University of Sunderland. He has published more than 50 articles, about half of which focus on sex ratios, and currently serves as Consulting Editor for the journal Animal Behaviour.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Gösta
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 Ahnestjö; 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.