Female-specific color is a signal of quality in the striped plateau lizard (Sceloporus virgatus)

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 726-732

  Weiss, Stacey L ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Condition dependent ornament; Female ornament; Female reproductive signals; Parasites; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; EGG SIZE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; GENOTYPE; LIZARD; MATE CHOICE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORNAMENTATION; PHENOTYPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROLE REVERSAL; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; SCELOPORUS VIRGATUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33747852880     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arl001     Document Type: Article

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