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15074315

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6983
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-4-9
pubmed:abstractText
Organisms that change sex during their lifetime use a variety of strategies--they may be female first, male first or even repetitive sex changers. Natural selection should favour those individuals that change sex at a time when it increases their reproductive value. Allsop and West claim that the relative timing of sex change is invariant across all animals, with individuals changing sex at 72% of their maximum body size, and infer that natural selection for sex change must therefore be fundamentally similar across animals. Here we explain why we believe that Allsop and West's claims are not supported by their analysis or by their empirical data.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1476-4687
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
8
pubmed:volume
428
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1 p following 616; discussion 2 p following 616
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Evolutionary biology: sex change and relative body size in animals.
pubmed:affiliation
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93101, USA. buston@nceas.ucsb.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comment