Costs of reproduction in the wild: Path analysis of natural selection and experimental tests of causation

Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1299-1313

  Sinervo, Barry ^a   Denardo, Dale F ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; costs of reproduction; gonadotropin; natural selection; ovarian manipulation; trade offs

Indexed keywords

NATURAL SELECTION; PATH ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SIDE-BLOTCHED LIZARD;

UTA STANSBURIANA;

EID: 0029661710     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb02370.x     Document Type: Article

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