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host quality model of sex allocation: a standalone construct

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Entomology

the prediction that parasitoid mothers lay daughters in large or high-quality hosts and sons in small ones, because size benefits females more.

In entomology, host quality model of sex allocation refers to the prediction that parasitoid mothers lay daughters in large or high-quality hosts and sons in small ones, because size benefits females more. This meaning comes from Charnov (1981) in Nature.[1]

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Charnov, E. L., Los-den Hartogh, R. L., Jones, W. T., & van den Assem, J. (1981). Sex ratio evolution in a variable environment. Nature, 289(5793), 27-33. https://doi.org/10.1038/289027a0

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