Development of sexual size dimorphism in lizards: Testosterone as a bipotential growth regulator

Sex, Size and Gender Roles: Evolutionary Studies of Sexual Size Dimorphism

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  John Alder, Henry B ^a   Cox, Robert M ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth rate; Iguania; Lizard; Phenotypic plasticity; Phrynosomatidae; Sceloporus; Somatotrophic axis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547763184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208784.003.0022     Document Type: Chapter

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