Why reduce clutch size to one or two eggs? Reproductive allometries reveal different evolutionary causes of invariant clutch size in lizards

Abstract

Evolutionary causes of invariant clutch size in lizards

Keywords

• allometry
• Anolis
• egg size
• gecko
• life history
• life-history traits
• eublepharid geckos squamata
• body-size
• sexual-dimorphism
• sceloporus-undulatus
• anolis-carolinensis
• endocrine control
• reptiles
• covariation
• patterns