Female philopatry in a heterogeneous environment: ordinary conditions leading to extraordinary ESS sex ratios

BackgroundWe use a simulation-based model to study the impact of female philopatry and heterogeneity of habitat quality on the evolution of primary sex ratio.ResultsWe show that these conditions may lead to strongly biased ESS habitat-dependent sex ratios, under two kinds of density-dependent population regulation. ESS sex ratios are always biased towards females in good habitats, towards males in poor habitats, and are generally equilibrated considering the whole population. Noticeably, the predicted bias of sex ratio usually increases with decreasing female philopatry.ConclusionThe selection forces responsible for these results are fully described. This study provides a new perspective on the evolutionary significance of temperature sex determination. We discuss the case of turtles by comparing our theoretical results with field observations.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  BMC Evolutionary Biology

• Publication date

  2007-02-06

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/1471-2148-7-13PMID 17284311PMCID 1804258
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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