Too big for his boots: Are social costs keeping condition-dependent status signalling honest in an Australian lizard?

Austral Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 636-640

  Healey, Mo ^a   Olsson, Mats ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body condition; Colour polymorphism; Multiple signal

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BODY CONDITION; HONEST SIGNALING; HORMONE; LIZARD; POLYMORPHISM; SIGNALING; TESTOSTERONE;

CTENOPHORUS PICTUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 69549088261     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.01968.x     Document Type: Article

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