| 书目名称 | Choosing Sexes |
| 副标题 | Mechanisms and Adapt |
| 编辑 | Kristen J. Navara |
| 视频video | |
| 概述 | Summarizes the latest studies on sex determination in vertebrates.Maximizes readers insights into how animals and humans can adjust the sexes of offspring.Illustrates the detailed mechanisms of how se |
| 丛书名称 | Fascinating Life Sciences |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | .There is extensive evidence that vertebrates of all classes have the ability to control the sexes of the offspring they produce. Despite dramatic differences in the mechanisms by which different taxa determine the initial sex of offspring, each group has found its own way of adjusting offspring sex ratios in response to social and environmental cues. For example, stress is a well-known modulator of offspring sex in members of all groups studied to date. Food availability, and limitation in particular, is another common cue that stimulates biases in offspring sex ratios in a wide variety of species. Offspring sex can be adjusted at the primary level, which occurs prior to conception, or at the secondary level, during embryonic development. While the mechanistic pathways that ultimately result in sex ratio biases and the developmental time-points sensitive to those mechanisms likely differ among taxa, the key involvement of steroid hormones in the process of sex ratio adjustmentappears to be pervasive throughout. ..This book reviews the systems of sex determination at play in different vertebrate groups, summarizes the evidence that members of all vertebrate taxa can facultatively |
| 出版日期 | Book 2018 |
| 关键词 | Sex allocation; Sex changing behaviour; Temperature-dependent sex determination; Sex determination; Adap |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71271-0 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-89057-9 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-71271-0Series ISSN 2509-6745 Series E-ISSN 2509-6753 |
| issn_series | 2509-6745 |
| copyright | Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 |
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