Overlap of female reproductive cycles explains shortened interclutch interval in a lizard with invariant clutch size (squamata: Gekkonidae: Paroedura picta)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 491-498

  Weiser, Hana ^a   Starostová, Zuzana ^a   Kubička, Lukáš ^a   Kratochvíl, Lukáš ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

CLUTCH SIZE; COMPENSATION; FECUNDITY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORMONE; LIZARD; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLUTCH SIZE; FEMALE; LIZARD; MADAGASCAR; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCTION; TIME; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CLUTCH SIZE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; LIZARDS; MADAGASCAR; PROGESTERONE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS; VITELLOGENESIS;

MADAGASCAR;

GEKKONIDAE; PAROEDURA PICTA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84865467770     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/666906     Document Type: Article

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