funded by a Victoria University of Wellington Doctoral Scholarship;funding was provided by a Herpetological Research Grant from the Society for Research on Reptiles;Amphibians in New Zealand and a Gaige Award from the American Society of Ichthyology and Herpetology.
The theoretical trade-off between immune and endocrine investment in mating animals has received mixed empirical support,particularly in reptiles.We investigated the relationship between male sexual characteristics,di...