High costs of female choice in a lekking lizard

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Vitousek, Maren N ^a   Mitchell, Mark A ^b   Woakes, Anthony J ^c   Niemack, Michael D ^a   Wikelski, Martin ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREEDING SUCCESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EL NINO; ENERGY COST; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; LIZARD; MALE; MATE CHOICE; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMBLYRHYNCHUS CRISTATUS; IGUANIA; SQUAMATA;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; LIZARDS; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL;

EID: 39349092957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000567     Document Type: Article

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