Sexual selection in scaled reptiles studies how sexual selection manifests in snakes and lizards, which constitute the order Squamata of reptiles. Each...

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development. Living reptiles comprise...

Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection in which members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection)...

Squamata (/skwæˈmeɪtə/, Latin squamatus, 'scaly, having scales') is the largest order of reptiles, comprising lizards and snakes. With over 11,500 species...

difference in the coloration of sexes within a given species is called sexual dichromatism, commonly seen in many species of birds and reptiles. Sexual selection...

In ecology, r/K selection theory relates to the selection of combinations of traits in an organism that trade off between quantity and quality of offspring...

details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection. The book discusses many...

determination in reptiles and crustaceans. The male and female of a species may be physically alike (sexual monomorphism) or have physical differences (sexual dimorphism)...

the showy features of the males had evolved by sexual selection. More recently, Amotz Zahavi proposed in his handicap principle that these features acted...

dekayi)". Amphibians and Reptiles of South Dakota.[self-published source?] Hecnar, S. J., & Hecnar, D. R. (2011). Microhabitat selection of woody debris by...

Weatherhead, P. J. (1999). Female Distribution Affects Mate Searching and Sexual Selection in Male Northern Water Snakes (Nerodia sipedon). Behavioral Ecology...

argued that internal fertilization evolve because of sexual selection through sperm competition. In amphibians, internal fertilization evolved from external...

such processes are widely recognized: natural selection (in the broad sense, to include sexual selection), genetic drift, mutation, and migration (Fisher...

American Reptiles and Amphibians. Knopf. New York. 743 pp. (Eumeces laticeps, pp. 573–574 + Plates 424, 431.) Conant, R. 1975. A Field Guide to Reptiles and...

In zoology, copulation is animal sexual behavior in which a male introduces sperm into the female's body, especially directly into her reproductive tract...

Lora L. (2019-01-15). "A regional scale assessment of habitat selection and home range of the eastern rat snake in pine-dominated forests". Forest Ecology...

Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians. Hong Kong: T.F.H. Publications. Palmer, William M., Alvin L. Braswell, Renaldo Kuhler (1995). Reptiles of North Carolina...

reptiles and batrachians of North America". Memoires of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 8 (3): 1–185. Garman S (1890). "Notes on Illinois reptiles and...

documented and prevalent in many animals as a means of sexual selection, creating a selective pressure on males to be larger. In an analysis on snakes,...

swelling") or sexual climax (or simply climax) is the sudden discharge of accumulated sexual excitement during the sexual response cycle, resulting in rhythmic...

The major histocompatibility complex in sexual selection concerns how major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules allow for immune system surveillance...

describe the role of natural selection in speciation in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. He also identified sexual selection as a likely mechanism, but...

Columbia, Canada in 1970, when a dozen individuals were released into the wild from a small private zoo. List of reptiles of Italy List of reptiles of Spain List...

"Thermal cues influence strikes in pitless vipers". Journal of Herpetology. 24 (4). Society for the Study of Reptiles and Amphibians: 448–50. doi:10.2307/1565074...

also been observed in reptiles, fish, and insects. Sexual monogamy is also rare among animals. Many socially monogamous species engage in extra-pair copulations...

carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (/sɜːrˈpɛntiːz/). Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping...

"mammal-like reptiles", but now known as stem mammals. This groups Dimetrodon together with mammals in the clade Synapsida, while reptiles are placed in a separate...

Gibbons, J. Whitfield (21 December 1982). "Body size dimorphism and sexual selection in two species of water snakes". Copeia. 1982 (4): 974. doi:10.2307/1444113...

lizards known as tegus which belong to the family Teiidae. Tegus are large reptiles, with some species reaching a total length of around 1.23 m (4.0 ft), and...

This list of largest reptiles takes into consideration both body length and mass of large reptile species, including average ranges and maximum records...