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Lizard social behavior /
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Baltimore, Md. ; London :
Johns Hopkins University Presss,
c2003.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The evolutionary study of social behavior and the role of lizards as model organisms / Stanley F. Fox, J. Kelly McCoy, and Troy A. Baird
- Variation among individuals. Introduction / Peter Marler. Intra- and intersexual variation in social behavior : effects of ontogeny, phenotype, resources, and season / Troy A. Baird, Dusti K. Timanus, and Chris L. Sloan. Evolution and maintenance of social status-signaling badges : experimental manipulations in lizards / Martin J. Whiting, Kenneth A. Nagy, and Philip W. Bateman. Ecological and social contexts for the evolution of alternative mating strategies / Kelly R. Zamudio and Barry Sinervo. Social behavior and antipredatory defense in lizards / William E. Cooper, Jr.
- Variation among populations. Introduction / Gordon H. Orians. Sexual selection, social behavior, and the environmental potential for polygyny / J. Kelly McCoy, Troy A. Baird, and Stanley F. Fox. Intraspecific variation in sexual dimorphism and mating system in relation to interisland differences in predation pressure / Masami Hasegawa. Island biogeography of morphology and social behavior in the lava lizards of the Galápagos Islands / Paul A. Stone, Howard L. Snell, and Heidi M. Snell
- Variation among species. Introduction / George W. Barlow. Endocrinology of species differences in sexually dichromatic signals : using the organization and activation model in a phylogenetic framework / Diana K. Hews and Vanessa S. Quinn. The interplay among environment, social behavior, and morphology : iguanid mating systems / Paul J. Gier.
- Social behavior at high and low elevations : environmental release and phylogenetic effects in Liolaemus / Stanley F. Fox and Paul A. Shipman. Sexual dimorphism in body size and shape in relation to habitat use among species of Caribbean Anolis lizards / Jonathan B. Losos, Marguerite Butler, and Thomas W. Schoener.