Choosing Sexes Mechanisms and Adaptive Patterns of Sex Allocation in Vertebrates /

• Main Author: Navara, Kristen J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Fascinating Life Sciences,
• Subjects: Animal physiology.; Animal genetics.; Developmental biology.; Behavioral sciences.; Animal Physiology.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Developmental Biology.; Behavioral Sciences.

There is extensive evidence that vertebrates of all classes have the ability to control the sexes of the offspring they produce. Despite dramatic differences in the mechanisms by which different taxa determine the initial sex of offspring, each group has found its own way of adjusting offspring sex...