Divergent Sex-Specific Plasticity in Long-Lived Vertebrates with Contrasting Sexual Dimorphism

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 81-98

  Ceballos, Claudia Patricia ^a,c   Hernández, Omar E ^b   Valenzuela, Nicole ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^b Fundacion para el Desarrollo de Las Ciencias Fisicas Matematicas Y Naturales FUDECI   (Venezuela)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of sexual size shape dimorphism; Podocnemis expansa; Rensch's rule; Sexual and natural selection; Turtle development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894378390     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-013-9249-0     Document Type: Article

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