Bearded ladies: Females suffer fitness consequences when bearing male traits

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Swierk, Lindsey ^a   Langkilde, Tracy ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intralocus sexual conflict; Mate choice; Sceloporus undulatus; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

EGG PRODUCTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FEMALE; FITNESS; LIZARD; MATE CHOICE; ORNAMENTATION; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INTRALOCUS SEXUAL CONFLICT; LIZARD; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

INTRALOCUS SEXUAL CONFLICT; MATE CHOICE; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY PATTERNING; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; LIZARDS; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84891927995     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0644     Document Type: Article

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