Fitness effects of the timing of hatching may drive the evolution of temperature-dependent sex determination in short-lived lizards

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 281-294

  Warner, Daniel A ^a,b   Uller, Tobias ^c,d   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agamidae; Charnov Bull model; Environmental sex determination; Genotypic sex determination; Male male competition; Sex ratio theory

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FITNESS; HATCHING; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; LIZARD; MATING SUCCESS; NEST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AGAMIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 60449111335     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-007-9222-4     Document Type: Article

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