Why do male snakes have longer tails than females?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1434, 1999, Pages 2147-2151

  Shine, R ^b   Olsson, M M ^b   Moore, I T ^a   LeMaster, M P ^a   Mason, R T ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Male combat; Mating success; Sexual selection; Tail wrestling; Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis

Indexed keywords

DIMORPHISM; FITNESS; MORPHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SNAKE;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; COPULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SNAKE; TAIL;

CANADA; MANITOBA;

ANIMALIA; SERPENTES; THAMNOPHIS; THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS; THAMNOPHIS SIRTALIS PARIETALIS; TRIXIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033533938     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0901     Document Type: Article

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