ArticleEcology and evolution2021
Honest signals and sexual conflict: Female lizards carry undesirable indicators of quality.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Bluer in the city: urban male lizards exhibit more intense sexual coloration and lower parasite loads than non-urban males.Integrative zoology · 2025Article
- Effects of Urbanization on Ventral Patch Size and Phenotypic Correlates of Patch Expression in Male Western Fence Lizards (Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Natural parasites in conjunction with behavioral and color traits explain male agonistic behaviors in a lizard.Current zoology · 2024Article
- Fitness Costs of Maternal Ornaments and Prenatal Corticosterone Manifest as Reduced Offspring Survival and Sexual Ornament Expression.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
- Masculinized Sexual Ornaments in Female Lizards Correlate with Ornament-Enhancing Thermoregulatory Behavior.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- Honest signals and sexual conflict: Female lizards carry undesirable indicators of quality.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
Sex differences in animal coloration often result from sex-dependent regulatory mechanisms. Still, some species exhibit incomplete sexual dimorphism as females carry a rudimentary version of a costly male trait, leading to intralocus sexual conflict. The underlying physiology and condition dependence of these traits can inform why such conflicts remain unresolved. In eastern fence lizards (
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