Behavioral and hormonal correlates of alternative reproductive strategies in a polygynous lizard: tests of the relative plasticity and challenge hypotheses.

doi:10.1016/0018-506x(92)90023-o

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Behavioral and hormonal correlates of alternative reproductive strategies in a polygynous lizard: tests of the relative plasticity and challenge hypotheses.

Hormones and behavior - 1 Dec 1992

Thompson C W, Moore M C

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Species with alternative reproductive tacts are good models to investigate the poorly understood question of whether individual variation within sexes results from the same physiological mechanisms that control variation between sexes. We have shown previously that adult male tree lizards, Urosau...

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Aggression
Animals
Color
Corticosterone
Lizards
Male
Phenotype
Sexual Behavior, Animal
Testosterone

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