Does the mechanism of sex determination constrain the potential for sex manipulation? A test in geckos with contrasting sex-determining systems

Abstract

Relationship between sex-determining system and sex ratio in geckos

Keywords

• Coleonyx
• environmental sex determination
• Eublepharis macularius
• invariant clutch size
• lizard
• maternal effect
• sex ratio
• yolk hormone-levels
• female leopard geckos
• invariant clutch size
• Alligator mississippiensis
• incubation-temperature
• steroid concentrations
• adaptive significance
• Anolis carolinensis
• american alligator