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Traditional agricultural practices and the sex ratio today. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 We study the historical origins of cross-country differences in the male-to-female sex ratio. Our analysis focuses on the use of the plough in traditional agriculture.
Alberto Alesina +2 more
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Sex ratio effects on reproductive strategies in humans [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Characterizations of coy females and ardent males are rooted in models of sexual selection that are increasingly outdated. Evolutionary feedbacks can strongly influence the sex roles and subsequent patterns of sex differentiated investment in mating ...
Ryan Schacht +1 more
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A synthetic sex ratio distortion system for the control of the human malaria mosquito
Nature Communications, 2014 It has been theorized that inducing extreme reproductive sex ratios could be a method to suppress or eliminate pest populations. Limited knowledge about the genetic makeup and mode of action of naturally occurring sex distorters and the prevalence of co ...
Roberto Galizi +8 more
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Genetic architecture of sex determination in fish: Applications to sex ratio control in aquaculture
Frontiers in Genetics, 2014 Controlling the sex ratio is essential in finfish farming. A balanced sex ratio is usually good for broodstock management, since it enables to develop appropriate breeding schemes.
Paulino eMartínez +5 more
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Socioeconomic status and sex ratio in the contemporary Hungarian population [PDF]
Evolutionary Human SciencesAccording to the Trivers–Willard hypothesis (TWH), when the mother's condition around conception influences the future reproductive success of male and female offspring differently, the adjustment of offspring sex ratio (SR) to maternal condition will ...
Fanni Sarkadi +2 more
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Heredity, 2002 Sex ratio theory attempts to explain variation at all levels (species, population, individual, brood) in the proportion of offspring that are male (the sex ratio). In many cases this work has been extremely successful, providing qualitative and even quantitative explanations of sex ratio variation.
West, Stuart A +2 more
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Current Biology, 2017 Jennions et al. introduce the different kinds of sex ratio and their biology.
Jennions, Michael D. +3 more
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Does the Mother or Father Determine the Offspring Sex Ratio? Investigating the Relationship between Maternal Digit Ratio and Offspring Sex Ratio. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 In mammals, high parental testosterone levels present around the time of conception are thought to skew offspring sex ratio toward sons. The second to fourth digit ratio (digit ratio) is now widely accepted as a negative correlate of prenatal ...
Tae Beom Kim +4 more
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eLife, 2022 Preference for sons and smaller families and, in the case of China, a one-child policy, have contributed to missing girl births in India and China over the last few decades due to sex-selective abortions.
Catherine Meh, Prabhat Jha
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