dc.contributor.author
Parés Casanova, Pere-Miquel
dc.date.accessioned
2024-12-05T22:03:30Z
dc.date.available
2024-12-05T22:03:30Z
dc.date.issued
2014-09-15T06:38:30Z
dc.date.issued
2025-01-01
dc.date.issued
2014-09-15T06:38:30Z
dc.identifier
https://doi.org/10.1080/00071668.2014.889282
dc.identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/47489
dc.identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/47489
dc.description.abstract
1. Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) is a common phenomenon in animals. Rensch"s rule states that larger species generally exhibit a higher male to female body size ratio than smaller ones. 2. Domesticated animals offer excellent opportunities for testing predictions of the functional explanations of Rensch"s rule and the was tested in a meta-analysis of SSD in 38 breeds of domestic geese compared amokng themselves and with their wild relatives (subfamily Anserinae, 35 species). 3. Domestic geese and wild Anser species taken together supported Rench"s rule but the wild species did not. 4. The non-targeted sex selection hypothesis seems to provide the best intuitive explanation for the lack of SSD in geese.
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application/pdf
dc.publisher
Taylor & Francis
dc.relation
Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1080/00071668.2014.889282
dc.relation
British Poultry Science, 2014, vol. 55, num. 2, p. 143-147
dc.rights
(c) British Poultry Science, 2014
dc.rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subject
Sexual size dimorphism
dc.subject
Domestic geese
dc.title
An analysis of sexual size dimorphism in goose
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
