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dc.contributor.authorJennions, Michael D.
dc.contributor.authorFromhage, Lutz
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-18T09:47:58Z
dc.date.available2018-01-18T09:47:58Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationJennions, M. D., & Fromhage, L. (2017). Not all sex ratios are equal : the Fisher condition, parental care and sexual selection. <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences</i>, <i>372</i>(1729), Article 20160312. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0312" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0312</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_27140704
dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_74562
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/56785
dc.description.abstractThe term ‘sex roles’ encapsulates male–female differences in mate searching, competitive traits that increase mating/fertilization opportunities, choosiness about mates and parental care. Theoretical models suggest that biased sex ratios drive the evolution of sex roles. To model sex role evolution, it is essential to note that in most sexually reproducing species (haplodiploid insects are an exception), each offspring has one father and one mother. Consequently, the total number of offspring produced by each sex is identical, so the mean number of offspring produced by individuals of each sex depends on the sex ratio (Fisher condition). Similarly, the total number of heterosexual matings is identical for each sex. On average, neither sex can mate nor breed more often when the sex ratio is even. But equally common in which sex ratio? The Fisher condition only applies to some reproductive measures (e.g. lifetime offspring production or matings) for certain sex ratios (e.g. operational or adult sex ratio; OSR, ASR). Here, we review recent models that clarify whether a biased OSR, ASR or sex ratio at maturation (MSR) have a causal or correlational relationship with the evolution of sex differences in parental care and competitive traits—two key components of sex roles. We suggest that it is more fruitful to understand the combined effect of the MSR and mortality rates while caring and competing than that of the ASR itself. In short, we argue that the ASR does not have a causal role in the evolution of parental care. We point out, however, that the ASR can be a cue for adaptive phenotypic plasticity in how each sex invests in parental care. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Adult sex ratios and reproductive decisions: a critical re-examination of sex differences in human and animal societies’.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoyal Society
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
dc.subject.othersex ratios
dc.subject.otherparental care
dc.subject.otherFisher condition
dc.titleNot all sex ratios are equal : the Fisher condition, parental care and sexual selection
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201801171236
dc.contributor.laitosBio- ja ympäristötieteiden laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Biological and Environmental Scienceen
dc.contributor.oppiaineEkologia ja evoluutiobiologiafi
dc.contributor.oppiaineEcology and Evolutionary Biologyen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.date.updated2018-01-17T07:15:53Z
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.relation.issn0962-8436
dc.relation.numberinseries1729
dc.relation.volume372
dc.type.versionacceptedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2017 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by Royal Society. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccessfi
dc.subject.ysoseksuaalivalinta
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p14268
dc.relation.doi10.1098/rstb.2016.0312
dc.type.okmA1


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