Sexual size dimorphism in anurans fails to obey Rensch’s rule
Open Access
- 1 January 2013
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Frontiers in Zoology
- Vol. 10 (1) , 10
Abstract
Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) is related to ecology, behaviour and life history of organisms. Rensch’s rule states that SSD increases with overall body size in species where males are the larger sex, while decreasing with body size when females are larger. To test this rule, we analysed literature as well as own data on male and female body size in anurans (39 species and 17 genera). We also tested the hypothesis that SSD is largely a function of age difference between the sexes.Keywords
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