Body-size effect on egg size in eublepharid geckos (Squamata: Eublepharidae), lizards with invariant clutch size: negative allometry for egg size in ectotherms is not universal

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 527-532

  Kratochvíl, Lukáš ^a   Frynta, Daniel ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Constraint; Egg mass; Eublepharis; Life history; Reproductive effort; Reptile

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY SIZE; CLUTCH SIZE; ECTOTHERMY; EGG SIZE; LIZARD;

ANIMALIA; EUBLEPHARIDAE; GEKKONIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33746266357     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00627.x     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Ackerly DD. 2000. Taxon sampling, correlated evolution, and independent contrasts. Evolution 54: 1480-1492.
2. Andrews R, Rand AS. 1974. Reproductive effort in anoline lizards. Ecology 55: 1317-1327.
3. Bauwens D, Díaz-Uriarte R. 1997. Covariation of life-history traits in lacertid lizards: a comparative study. American Naturalist 149: 91-111.
4. Berrigan D. 1991. The allometry of egg size and number in insects. Oikos 60: 313-321.
5. Blueweiss L, Fox H, Kudzma D, Nakashima D, Peters R, Sams S. 1978. Relationships between body size and some life history parameters. Oecologia (Berlin) 37: 257-272.
6. Dial BE, Grismer LL. 1992. A phylogenetic analysis of physiological-ecological character evolution in the lizard genus Coleonyx and its implications for historical biogeographic reconstruction. Systematic Biology 41: 178-195.
7. Easterla DA, Reynolds RO. 1975. Additional records and ecological notes on the reticulated gecko, Coleonyx reticulatus (Davis and Dixon), from the southern Trans-Pecos of southwestern Texas. Journal of Herpetology 9: 233-236.
8. Elgar MA, Heaphy LJ. 1989. Covariation between clutch size, egg weight and egg shape: comparative evidence for chelonians. Journal of Zoology, London 219: 137-152.
9. Elnum S, Fleming IA. 2000. Highly fecund mothers sacrifice offspring survival to maximize fitness. Nature 405: 565-567.
10. Felsenstein J. 1985. Phylogenies and the comparative method. American Naturalist 125: 1-15.
11. Gallo JF, Reese K. 1978. Notes on the hatching of eggs and description of the hatchlings of the reticulated gecko, Coleonyx reticulatus Davis & Dixon (Lacertilia: Eublepharidae). Southwestern Naturalist 23: 308-309.
12. García-Barros E. 2000. Body size, egg size, and their interspecific relationships with ecological and life history traits in butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea, Hesperioidea). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 70: 251-284.
13. Garland T, Harvey PH, Ives AR. 1992. Procedures for the analysis of comparative data using phylogenetically independent contrasts. Systematic Biology 41: 18-32.
14. Grismer LL. 1988. Phylogeny, taxonomy, classification, and biogeography of eublepharid geckos. In: Estes R, Pregill G, eds. Phylogenetic relationships of the lizard families. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 369-469.
15. Harvey PH, Pagel MD. 1991. The comparative method in evolutionary biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
16. Kluge AG. 1987. Cladistic relationships in the Gekkonoidea (Squamata, Sauria). Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 173: 1-54.
17. Kratochvíl L, Frynta D. 2002. Body size, male combat and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in eublepharid geckos (Squamata: Eublepharidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 76: 303-314.
18. Kratochvíl L, Frynta D. 2003. Production-growth model applied in eublepharid lizards (Eublepharidae, Squamata): accordance between growth and metabolic rates. Folia Zoologica 52: 317-322.
19. Manthey U, Grossmann W. 1997. Amphibien and Reptilien Südostasiens. Münster: Natur und Tier-verlag.
20. Marshall SD, Gittleman JL. 1994. Clutch size in spiders: is more better? Functional Ecology 8: 118-124.
21. Martins EP. 2003. COMPARE, Version 4.5. Computer programs for the statistical analysis of comparative data [WWW programme]. http://compare.bio. indiana.edu.
22. Molina-Borja M, Rodríguez-Domínguez MA. 2004. Evolution of biometric and life-history traits in lizards (Gallotia) from the Canary Islands. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 42: 44-53.
23. Olsson M, Shine R. 1997. The limits to reproductive output: offspring size versus number in the sand lizard (Lacerta agilis). American Naturalist 149: 179-188.
24. Ota H, Honda M, Kobayashi M, Sengoku S, Hikida T. 1999. Phylogenetic relationships of eublepharid geckos (Reptilia: Squamata): a molecular approach. Zoological Science 16: 659-666.
25. Sczerbak NN, Golubev ML. 1986. Gekkony fauny SSSR I sopredelnych stran / The gecko fauna of the USSR and adjacent regions. Kiev: Naukova Dumka.
26. Shine R. 1992. Relative clutch mass and body shape in lizards and snakes: is reproductive investment constrained or optimized? Evolution 46: 828-833.
27. Shine R, Greer AE. 1991. Why are clutch sizes more variable in some species than in others? Evolution 45: 1696-1706.
28. Shine R, Harlow PS, Keogh JS, Boeadi. 1998. The allometry of life-history traits: insight from a study of giant snakes (Python reticulatus). Journal of Zoology, London 244: 405-414.
29. Starostová Z, Kratochvíl L, Frynta D. 2005. Dwarf and giant geckos from the cellular perspective: the bigger the animal, the bigger its erythrocytes? Functional Ecology 19: 744-749.
30. StatSoft Inc. 2001. STATISTICA, Version 6.0. http://www.statsoft.com.
31. Thompson GG, Pianka ER. 2001. Allometry of clutch and neonate size in monitor lizards (Varanidae: Varanus). Copeia 2001: 443-458.