Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2005 |
Authors: | L. Johnson, S, Wimmers, LE, Johnson, BG, Milkie, RC, Molinaro, RL, Gallagher, BS, Masters, BS |
Journal: | Animal Behaviour |
Volume: | 70 |
Issue: | 6 |
Date Published: | 2005 |
ISBN Number: | 0003-3472 |
Keywords: | Troglodytes, Troglodytes aedon, Troglodytes troglodytes, Troglodytidae |
Abstract: | Most reports of adaptive manipulation of offspring sex in birds have come from single-year studies with relatively small sample sizes. Calls have thus gone out for repeat, multiple-year studies to confirm positive results. In a study of a Wyoming population of house wrens, Troglodytes aedon, Albrecht (2000, Animal Behaviour, 59, 1227) asked whether embryos from last-laid eggs of clutches were predominantly female. Last-laid eggs typically hatch 36-48 |
URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000334720500309X |
Short Title: | Animal Behaviour |
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