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SUBMITTER: Abe J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8157915 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Abe Jun J Iritani Ryosuke R Tsuchida Koji K Kamimura Yoshitaka Y West Stuart A SA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20210501 20
The puzzling sex ratio behavior of <i>Melittobia</i> wasps has long posed one of the greatest questions in the field of sex allocation. Laboratory experiments have found that, in contrast to the predictions of theory and the behavior of numerous other organisms, <i>Melittobia</i> females do not produce fewer female-biased offspring sex ratios when more females lay eggs on a patch. We solve this puzzle by showing that, in nature, females of <i>Melittobia australica</i> have a sophisticated sex ra ...[more]