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Academic & Professional Books  Organismal to Molecular Biology  Animals: General

Sex Ratios Concepts and Research Methods

By: Ian CW Hardy(Editor)
424 pages, illustrations, tables
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About this book

Covering sex allocation, sex determination and operational sex ratios, this multi-author volume provides both a conceptual context and an instruction in methods for many aspects of sex ratio research. Theory, statistical analysis and genetics are each explained and discussed in the first three sections. The remaining chapters each focus on research in one of a wide spectrum of animal, plant and microbial taxa, including sex ratio distorting bacteria in invertebrates, malarial parasites, birds, human and other mammals, giving critical appraisals of such research. Sex Ratios: Concepts and Research Methods is primarily intended for graduate and professional behavioural and evolutionary ecologists in this field, but it will also be useful to biologists building evolutionary models, and researchers analysing data involving proportions or comparisons across phylogenetically related species.

Contents

Preface and acknowledgements
Part I. Sex Ratio Theory
1. Models of sex ratio evolution / Jon Seger and J. William Stubblefield
2. Optimal sex allocation: steps towards a mechanistic theory / Ido R. Pen and Franz J. Weissing

Part II. Statistical Analysis of Sex Ratio Data
3. Statistical analysis of sex ratios: an introduction / Kenneth Wilson and Ian C. W. Hardy
4. Analysis of sex ratios in social insects / J. J. (Koos) Boomsma and Gösta Nachman
5. Analysis of sex ratio variances and consequences of sex allocation / Sven Krackow, Evert Meelis and Ian C. W. Hardy
6. Comparative analysis of sex ratios / Peter J. Mayhew and Ido R. Pen

Part III. Genetics of Sex Ratio and Sex Determination
7. Sex determining mechanisms in vertebrates / Sarah B. M. Kraak and Ido R. Pen
8. Sex determination in invertebrates / James M. Cook
9. Sex ratio distorters and their detection / Richard Stouthamer, Gregory D. D. Hurst and J. A . J. (Hans) Breeuwer

Part IV. Animal Sex Ratios Under Different Life-Histories
10. Sex ratios of parasitic Hymenoptera with unusual life-histories / Paul J. Ode and Martha S. Hunter
11. Sex ratio control in arrhenotkous and pseudo-arrhenotokous mites / Maurice W. Sabelis, C. J. (Kees) Nagelkerke and J. A. J. (Hans) Breeuwer
12. Aphid sex ratios William / A. Foster
13. Sex ratios in birds and mammals: can the hypotheses be disentangled / Andrew Cockburn, Sarah Legge and Michael C. Double
14. Human sex ratios: adaptations and mechanisms, problems and prospects / John Lazarus

Part V. Sex ratios in other kingdoms
15. Sex ratios of malaria parasites and related protozoa / Andrew Read, Todd G. Smith , Sean Nee and Stuart A. West
16. Sex allocation in hermaphroditic plants / Peter G. L. Klinkhamer and Tom J. de Jong
17. Sex ratios in dioecious plants / Tom J. de Jong and Peter G. L. Klinkhamer

Part VI. Applications of sex ratios
18. Operational sex ratios and mating competition / Charlotta Kvarnemo and Ingrid Ahnestjö
19. Using sex ratios: the past and the future / Steven Hecht Orzack
20. Using sex ratios: why bother? / Stuart A. West and Edward Allen Herre

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Biography

IAN HARDY is Senior Research Fellow in Biological Sciences at the University of Sunderland. He has published more than 50 articles, about half of which focus on sex ratios, and currently serves as Consulting Editor for the journal Animal Behaviour.

By: Ian CW Hardy(Editor)
424 pages, illustrations, tables
Media reviews

"[...] this excellent book provides an up-to-date and critical review of the models and data relating to sex ratios. [...] well structured and demonstrated that a multi-authored book can be cohesive."
TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution

"[...] clearly structured, instructive, generously brimming with examples and contains useful, concise chapter summaries. Evolutionary biologists will find it not only useful but also accessible and engaging."
– Kate Oddie, Animal Behaviour

"Hardy has done an excellent job in editing a book that conveys the continuing excitement in sex ratio research while still, to paraphrase Darwin, leaving some problems for future solution."
Science

"[...] an invaluable manual for any researcher in this field."
– Louise Rowe, British Ornithologists' Union

"[...] an excellent volume."
Ethnology

"I would recommend anyone interested in the use or evolution of sex ratios theory to read this book. Every academic library should have a copy on their shelves."
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