Egg shape and size allometry in geckos (Squamata : Gekkota), lizards with contrasting eggshell structure: why lay spherical eggs?

Abstract

Egg size and shape allometry in geckos

Keywords

• constraint
• cost of reproduction
• egg size allometry
• life history
• lizard
• reproductive effort
• life-history traits
• nuclear-dna sequences
• body-size
• clutch size
• phylogenetic-relationships
• sexual-dimorphism
• evolution
• Gekkonidae
• giant
• Eublepharidae