Marine Ecology Progress Series
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps10522
copiedFemale-biased sex ratios in marine pelagic copepods: Comment on Gusmão et al. (2013)
ABSTRACT: Gusmão et al. (2013; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 482:279-298) review causes of sex ratio skew in pelagic copepods and in doing so repeatedly dispute the paper of Hirst et al. (2010) ‘Does predation control adult sex ratios and longevities in marine pelagic copepods?’ Here we respond to some important errors in their citation of our paper and briefly highlight where future work is needed in order to attribute the causes of strong sex ratio skew seen in some copepod families.
KEYWORDS
A. G. Hirst (Co-author)
- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
D. Bonnet (Co-author)
- Laboratoire ECOSYM, UMR5119, Université Montpellier 2, CC093, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
D. V. P. Conway (Co-author)
- Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth, Devon PL1 2PB, UK
T. Kiørboe (Co-author)
- National Institute for Aquatic Resources, Oceanography Section, Technical University of Denmark, 2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark