IAN HARDY is Senior Research Fellow in Biological Sciences at the University of Sunderland. He has published more than 50 articles, about half of which focus on sex ratios, and currently serves as Consulting Editor for the journal Animal Behaviour.
Preface and acknowledgements; Part I. Sex Ratio Theory: 1. Models of sex
ratio evolution Jon Seger and J. William Stubblefield; 2. Optimal sex
allocation: steps towards a mechanistic theory Ido R. Pen and Franz J.
Weissing; Part II. Statistical Analysis of Sex Ratio Data: 3. Statistical
analysis of sex ratios: an introduction Kenneth Wilson and Ian C. W. Hardy;
4. Analysis of sex ratios in social insects J. J. (Koos) Boomsma and Gösta
Nachman; 5. Analysis of sex ratio variances and consequences of sex
allocation Sven Krackow, Evert Meelis and Ian C. W. Hardy; 6. Comparative
analysis of sex ratios Peter J. Mayhew and Ido R. Pen; Part III. Genetics
of Sex Ratio and Sex Determination: 7. Sex determining mechanisms in
vertebrates Sarah B. M. Kraak and Ido R. Pen; 8. Sex determination in
invertebrates James M. Cook; 9. Sex ratio distorters and their detection
Richard Stouthamer, Gregory D. D. Hurst and J. A . J. (Hans) Breeuwer; Part
IV. Animal Sex Ratios Under Different Life-Histories: 10. Sex ratios of
parasitic Hymenoptera with unusual life-histories Paul J. Ode and Martha S.
Hunter; 11. Sex ratio control in arrhenotkous and pseudo-arrhenotokous
mites Maurice W. Sabelis, C. J. (Kees) Nagelkerke and J. A. J. (Hans)
Breeuwer; 12. Aphid sex ratios William A. Foster; 13. Sex ratios in birds
and mammals: can the hypotheses be disentangled Andrew Cockburn, Sarah
Legge and Michael C. Double; 14. Human sex ratios: adaptations and
mechanisms, problems and prospects John Lazarus; Part V. Sex ratios in
other kingdoms: 15. Sex ratios of malaria parasites and related protozoa
Andrew Read, Todd G. Smith , Sean Nee and Stuart A. West; 16. Sex
allocation in hermaphroditic plants Peter G. L. Klinkhamer and Tom J. de
Jong; 17. Sex ratios in dioecious plants Tom J. de Jong and Peter G. L.
Klinkhamer; Part VI. Applications of sex ratios: 18. Operational sex ratios
and mating competition Charlotta Kvarnemo and Ingrid Ahnestjö; 19. Using
sex ratios: the past and the future Steven Hecht Orzack; 20. Using sex
ratios: why bother? Stuart A. West and Edward Allen Herre.
