Is variation in brood sex ratios adaptive in the great tit (Parus major)

By A. Radford, J. Blakey. 2000

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Is cricket courtship song condition dependent (2001, background): “…by researchers working with taxa such as fish (Bolger & Connolly 1989; Milinski & Bakker 1990; Knapp 1995), birds (Møller 1994; Sheldon et al. 1997; Radford & Blakely 2000) and insects (Droney 1998), including crickets and katydids (Brown et al. 1996; Brown 1997; Gwynne & Bailey 1999; Wagner &…”
No effect of parental quality or extrapair paternity on brood sex ratio in the blue tit (Parus caeruleus) (2001, background): “…in birds is not fully understood, however (Krackow, 1995), and there are other studies where an adaptive brood sex ratio might be expected but has not been found (Bradbury et al., 1997; Fiala, 1981; Hartley et al., 1999; Radford and Blakey, 2000; Saino et al., 1999; Westerdahl et al., 1997).”
Primary sex ratio adjustment to experimentally reduced male UV attractiveness in blue tits (2006, background): “Furthermore, results have been inconsistent between studies within the same species and may differ between different years or different populations (e.g., Lessells et al. 1996; Ko¨lliker et al. 1999; Radford and Blakey 2000; Verboven et al. 2002).”