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First published online March 27, 2009
Journal of Experimental Biology 212, 1087-1091 (2009)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2009
doi: 10.1242/jeb.024257
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Sex-specific developmental plasticity in response to yolk corticosterone in an oviparous lizard

Tobias Uller1,2, Johan Hollander3, Lee Astheimer4 and Mats Olsson2

1 Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
2 School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
3 Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield N10 2TN, UK
4 School of Health Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia


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  		Fig. 1. Correlation between mean yolk testosterone and corticosterone content in eggs of the mallee dragon, Ctenophorus fordi. Only clutches where hormones were detected in at least one egg are included, and one outlier has been removed (see text for details).

 

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  		Fig. 2. (A) Snout–vent length (SVL), (B) offspring body mass and (C) total body length at hatching. Data represent least square means (± s.e.m.) from linear mixed models, as in Table 1.

 

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