Environmental sensitivity of sexual size dimorphism: Laboratory common garden removes effects of sex and castration on lizard growth

Functional Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 880-888

  Cox, R M ^a,b   Zilberman, V ^a   John Alder, H B ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Growth rate; Proximate mechanism; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CASTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FOOD CONSUMPTION; GROWTH RATE; LIZARD; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; TESTOSTERONE;

ACHILLEA; ANIMALIA; SCELOPORUS; SCELOPORUS JARROVII; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33748439390     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2006.01177.x     Document Type: Article

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