Transgressive aggression in Sceloporus hybrids confers fitness through advantages in male agonistic encounters

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137-147

  Robbins, Travis R ^a   Pruitt, Jonathan N ^a   Straub, Lorelei E ^a   McCoy, Earl D ^a   Mushinsky, Henry R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological isolation; Extreme phenotype; Homoploid hybrid speciation; Hybrid vigour; Squamates

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BODY SIZE; DIVERGENCE; FITNESS; HYBRID; LIZARD; PHENOTYPE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); VIGOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; LIZARD; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; LIZARDS; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

SCELOPORUS; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; SCELOPORUS WOODI; SQUAMATA;

EID: 72449144693     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01594.x     Document Type: Article

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