Alternative mating strategies and the evolution of sexual size dimorphism in the side-blotched lizard, UTA stansburiana: A population-level comparative analysis

Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-96

  Corl, Ammon ^a   Davis, Alison R ^a   Kuchta, Shawn R ^a,b   Comendant, Tosha ^a   Sinervo, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Fecundity selection; Independent contrasts; Intrasexual selection; Phenotypic diversification; Phylogeny; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FECUNDITY; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIZARD; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; LIZARD; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LIZARDS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

SQUAMATA; UTA; UTA STANSBURIANA;

EID: 73949091543     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00791.x     Document Type: Article

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