Veronika Bókony

Nov 18, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Ivett Pipoly |Veronika Bókony |Jean-Michel Gaillard |Jean-François Lemaître

AbstractSex chromosomes determine male and female phenotypes, and the resulting sex differences can have significant impacts on ecology and life history. One manifestation of this link is that ZZ/ZW sex-determination systems are associated with more male-skewed adult sex ratio (ASR, proportion of males in the adult population) than XY/XX systems across tetrapods (amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals).