Continuous male presence required for fertilization in captive painted dragons, Ctenophorus pictus.

Understanding proximate determinants of reproductive events is an important issue for many biologists. In the present paper, we show that follicular recruitment and fertilization are dependent on male stimuli in long-term captive female painted dragon lizards, Ctenophorus pictus. Hibernated females...

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Main Authors: Uller, T, Olsson, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2005