Sex Allocation: L'Enfer C'est les Autres?
Brine shrimp produce a maladaptive excess of sons when co-occurring with females from a related parthenogenetic species. Still, this sex ratio may be adaptive if, by mating with females of the other species, males miss out on mating with their own.
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Edifício C2, 3° Piso, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal. Electronic address: joao.alpedrinha@gmail.com.
João
J
Alpedrinha
Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Edifício C2, 3° Piso, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal. Electronic address: snmagalhaes@fc.ul.pt.
Sara
S
Magalhães
D000818:Animals; D001156:Artemia; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D010312:Parthenogenesis; D012098:Reproduction; D012744:Sex Ratio