Offspring Sex in a Lizard Depends on Egg Size

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1102-1105

  Radder, Rajkumar S ^a   Pike, David A ^a   Quinn, Alexander E ^b   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

EVOL_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CYTOLOGY; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; MALE; OOCYTE; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LIZARDS; MALE; OVARY; OVUM; PHENOTYPE; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

BASSIANA DUPERREYI; REPTILIA; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 67649867947     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.05.027     Document Type: Article

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