Sex on the Beach: Sexual Size Dimorphism Among Aquatic Bugs (Nepomorpha) Inhabiting Different Habitats [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAquatic bugs (Nepomorpha) are a species‐rich taxon of insects inhabiting all types of freshwaters, often at high densities, and some are among the dominant predators in aquatic food webs.
Gábor Bakonyi, Anikó Seres
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Sexual size dimorphism in mammals is associated with changes in the size of gene families related to brain development [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsIn mammals, sexual size dimorphism often reflects the intensity of sexual selection, yet its connection to genomic evolution remains unexplored. Gene family size evolution can reflect shifts in the relative importance of different molecular functions ...
Benjamin Padilla-Morales +12 more
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Development of male-larger sexual size dimorphism in a lizard: IGF1 peak long after sexual maturity overlaps with pronounced growth in males [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 Squamate reptiles have been considered to be indeterminate growers for a long time. However, recent studies demonstrate that bone prolongation is stopped in many lizards by the closure of bone growth plates.
Brandon Meter +3 more
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Sexual selection and sexual size dimorphism in animals. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2021 Janicke T, Fromonteil S.
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Multimale breeding aggregations by “many-friends” snakes: courtship behaviours by Malagasy Pseudoxyrhophiine snakes, Dromicodryas bernieri and D. quadrilineatus, and their sexual size dimorphism [PDF]
Herpetozoa, 2022 When several male snakes dispute over one female in the breeding season, two major male-male rivalries are known to occur: male-male combat and multimale breeding aggregation.
Ryobu Fukuyama +2 more
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Sexual dimorphism and skull size and shape in the highly specialized snake species, Aipysurus eydouxii (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Background Snakes exhibit sexual dimorphism in both head size and shape. Such differences are often attributed to different reproductive roles and feeding habits. We aim to investigate how sexual dimorphism is displayed in the highly specialised fish-egg-
Bartosz Borczyk +3 more
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The ontogeny of sexual size dimorphism of a moth: when do males and females grow apart? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Sexual dimorphism in body size (sexual size dimorphism) is common in many species. The sources of selection that generate the independent evolution of adult male and female size have been investigated extensively by evolutionary biologists, but how and ...
R Craig Stillwell +2 more
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Acta Herpetologica, 2021 Intersexual morphological differences within a species occur in many traits, including body size and shape. Many processes that cause geographic variability in morphology have been proposed: population structure, phenotypic plasticity (environmental ...
Valeria de Olivera-López +2 more
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Sexual Dimorphism of Size Ontogeny and Life History
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2020 Background: Ecological and physiological factors and social and economic constraints affect sex-specific body size. Here, we used the male/female (M/F) height ratio as an indicator of the combined effect of genetic and sex characteristics.
Alina German +2 more
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A genetic test of sexual size dimorphism in pre-emergent chinook salmon. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Sex differences in early development may play an important role in the expression of sexual size dimorphism at the adult stage. To test whether sexual size dimorphism is present in pre-emergent chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), alevins were ...
Tosh W Mizzau +4 more
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