1987
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-6273-8_10
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Sex allocation in animals

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“…As we have no access to the distribution of S.mansoni in human populations, these data on naturally infested rats are the only we have to estimate k and m, parameters of the aggregation of S. mansoni among its host population. In monogamous hermaphroditic species, resource allocation to female function is likely to be high (Herre et al 1987). Thus, the fecundity of a female is not expected to be greatly increased compared with the fecundity of an hermaphrodite, b is expected to be close to 1.…”
Section: The Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As we have no access to the distribution of S.mansoni in human populations, these data on naturally infested rats are the only we have to estimate k and m, parameters of the aggregation of S. mansoni among its host population. In monogamous hermaphroditic species, resource allocation to female function is likely to be high (Herre et al 1987). Thus, the fecundity of a female is not expected to be greatly increased compared with the fecundity of an hermaphrodite, b is expected to be close to 1.…”
Section: The Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%