Blood corticosterone levels and intersexual selection games: Best-of-bad-job strategies of male common lizards

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 305-315

  Gonzalez Jimena, Virginia ^a,b   Fitze, Patrick S ^a,b,c,d  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c FUNDACIÓN ARAID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Behavioural stress response; Intersexual selection; Intrasexual selection; Lacertids; Sexual signal

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BLOOD; COPULATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DOMINANCE; HORMONE; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; LIZARD; MATE CHOICE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

LACERTIDAE; SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

EID: 84855895897     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-011-1278-z     Document Type: Article

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