Offspring sex ratio in mammals and the Trivers‐Willard hypothesis: In pursuit of unambiguous evidence

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Bioessays

• Publication date

  2017-07-06

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/bies.201700043PMID 28681935
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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