No seasonal sex-ratio shift despite sex-specific fitness returns of hatching date in a lizard with genotypic sex determination

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2131-2136

  Uller, Tobias ^a   Olsson, Mats ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lizard; Sex allocation; Sex ratio; Sexual size dimorphism; Temperature dependent sex determination

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; LIFE HISTORY; LIZARD; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL MATURITY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENOTYPE; LIZARD; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LIZARDS; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX RATIO;

CTENOPHORUS FORDI; INVERTEBRATA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33751330206     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/06-241.1     Document Type: Article

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