Multiple mating increases fecundity, fertility and relative clutch mass in the female leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius)

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 512-520

  LaDage, Lara D ^a   Gutzke, William H N ^c   Simmons II, Richard A ^b   Ferkin, Michael H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c Fleischmann Agriculture Building ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FECUNDITY; FERTILITY; MATING SUCCESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REPTILE;

EUBLEPHARIS MACULARIUS; FELIDAE; GEKKONIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS;

EID: 41949114310     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01495.x     Document Type: Article

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