Sexual size dimorphism in anurans

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1507, 2002, Pages 2301-2307

  Monnet, Jean Matthieu ^a,b   Cherry, Michael I ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Age; Anurans; Life history; Size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BODY SIZE; LIFE HISTORY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FERTILITY; FROG; FROGS AND TOADS; LIFE HISTORY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOAD;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO; RANA;

EID: 53149095795     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2170     Document Type: Article

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