Whatever the weather: ambient temperature does not influence the proportion of males born in New Zealand.

BACKGROUND: The proportion of male births has been shown to be over 50% in temperate climates around the world. Given that fluctuations in ambient temperature have previously been shown to affect sex allocation in humans, we examined the hypothesis that ambient temperature predicts fluctuations in t...

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Main Authors: Barnaby J Dixson, John Haywood, Philip J Lester, Diane K Ormsby
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3177861?pdf=render