Optimal sex ratio as a function of EGG incubation temperature in the crocodilians

DOI10.1007/BF02458624MaRDI QIDQ811448zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors F. M. IV. Phelps

Publication date 1992

Published in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02458624

zbMATH Keywords

crocodiliansESSevolutionary stable strategyfemale fitnessfunctional casemale fitnessoptimal sex ratiopopulation genetics modelsquality of incubation environmenttemperature-dependent sex determination

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08) Physiological, cellular and medical topics (92C99) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) Problems related to evolution (92D15)

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