Survival of the females

It is well known that many mammals are able to adjust the ratio of male and female young depending on the surrounding conditions at the time of conception. A recent study in the group of Christine Aurich at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna provides important information on how the survival of female embryos may be enhanced under conditions that would otherwise favor the birth of males. The work is published in the journal Theriogenology.

Read the whole article on Physorg

More from Physorg