While developmental plasticity has been shown to contribute to sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in laboratory studies, its role in shaping SSD variation in wild vertebrate populations is unclear. Here we use a field study and a laboratory experiment to show that resource availability influences the degree of SSD among insular populations of Anolis sagrei lizards in the Bahamas. Total amounts of food biomass explained variation in male, but not female, body size on six Bahamian islands, giving rise to significant differences in SSD. Laboratory experiments on a captive colony of A. sagrei confirmed that variation in SSD was mediated by the effects of prey biomass on developmental plasticity in males, but not females. Indeed, males grew faster and...
Sexual dimorphism (SD) is a common trait in animals, appearing due to sexual selection, fecundity se...
1. Broad phylogenetic patterns in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) are shaped by sex differences in net ...
1. Broad phylogenetic patterns in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) are shaped by sex differences in net ...
International audienceWhile developmental plasticity has been shown to contribute to sexual size dim...
While developmental plasticity has been shown to contribute to sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in labor...
While developmental plasticity has been shown to contribute to sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in labor...
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Bonneaud, C., Marnocha, E., Herrel, A., ...
Tradeoffs between reproduction and survival are central to life-history theory and are expected to s...
The fecundity-advantage-hypothesis (FAH) explains larger female size relative to male size as a corr...
The fecundity-advantage-hypothesis (FAH) explains larger female size relative to male size as a corr...
Sexual-size dimorphism (SSD) is widespread in animals, especially in lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) an...
Sexual differences in adult body size (sexual size dimorphism, or SSD) ultimately can be favored by ...
Sexual dimorphism (SD) is a common trait in animals, appearing due to sexual selection, fecundity se...
1. Broad phylogenetic patterns in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) are shaped by sex differences in net ...
Sexual dimorphism (SD) is a common trait in animals, appearing due to sexual selection, fecundity se...
Sexual dimorphism (SD) is a common trait in animals, appearing due to sexual selection, fecundity se...
1. Broad phylogenetic patterns in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) are shaped by sex differences in net ...
1. Broad phylogenetic patterns in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) are shaped by sex differences in net ...
International audienceWhile developmental plasticity has been shown to contribute to sexual size dim...
While developmental plasticity has been shown to contribute to sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in labor...
While developmental plasticity has been shown to contribute to sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in labor...
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Bonneaud, C., Marnocha, E., Herrel, A., ...
Tradeoffs between reproduction and survival are central to life-history theory and are expected to s...
The fecundity-advantage-hypothesis (FAH) explains larger female size relative to male size as a corr...
The fecundity-advantage-hypothesis (FAH) explains larger female size relative to male size as a corr...
Sexual-size dimorphism (SSD) is widespread in animals, especially in lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) an...
Sexual differences in adult body size (sexual size dimorphism, or SSD) ultimately can be favored by ...
Sexual dimorphism (SD) is a common trait in animals, appearing due to sexual selection, fecundity se...
1. Broad phylogenetic patterns in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) are shaped by sex differences in net ...
Sexual dimorphism (SD) is a common trait in animals, appearing due to sexual selection, fecundity se...
Sexual dimorphism (SD) is a common trait in animals, appearing due to sexual selection, fecundity se...
1. Broad phylogenetic patterns in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) are shaped by sex differences in net ...
1. Broad phylogenetic patterns in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) are shaped by sex differences in net ...