funded by the Biology Major of the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México(UNAM);Scientific collecting permit issued by Semarnat(SGPA/DGVS 12013/12)。
We studied the cycles of reproduction and fat bodies of a blue-tailed skink population of an undescribed species of the Plestiodon brevirostris group.Sexual maturity is attained by females and males as they both reach...
supported by funds provided to L.S.by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31660613).
Rensch’s rule relates to a pattern whereby sexual size dimorphism is more female-biased in small-sized species and more male-biased in large-sized ones.We collected literature and museum data on the body size of male...
Oxidative stress is a key physiological mechanism underlying life-history tradeoffs. Here, I use meta-analytic techniques to test whether sexual differences in oxidative balance are common in vertebrates and to identi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41672001 and 41272002);State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS) (143114);supported by a grant from the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Internal fertilization and viviparity are easily observed and well studied in living neopterygian fishes(14teleostean families), but they are difficult to identify in extinct taxa due to the limitation of the fossil r...
The work was carried out in compliance with the current laws of China, and was supported by grant from Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions to Ji's group, the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (Project No. llKJB180004), Jiangsu Provincial Foundation of Natural Science (No. BK2012849) and the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31070339). We would like to thank Long-Hui Lin, Jian-Fang Gao, Lai-Gao Luo andYan-Fu Qu for their assistance both in the field and in the laboratory.
To test the hypothesis that the variance of incubation temperature may have constituted a significant selective force for reptilian viviparity, we incubated eggs of the slender forest skink Scincella modesta in five t...