Variation in social organization influences the opportunity for sexual selection in a social lizard.

Social monogamy has traditionally been suggested to be maintained because of weak sexual selection on male partner acquisition. However, the ubiquitous incidence of extra-pair paternity suggests that sexual selection can be strong in monogamous systems, although studies partitioning variance in male...

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Hauptverfasser: While, G, Uller, T, Wapstra, E
Format: Journal article
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2011