1. Large clutch size is unambiguously an ancestral state in reptiles. However, females of
several lizard lineages lay just one or two eggs per clutch, called invariant clutch size …

Animal species differ in the variability of their clutch sizes, as well as in mean clutch sizes.
This phenomenon is particularly obvious in lizards, where virtually invariant clutch sizes …

Background Studies of lizards have shown that offspring size cannot be altered by
manipulating clutch size in species with a high clutch frequency. This raises a question of …

We studied the correlations between body size parameters (SVL and body condition) and
clutch parameters (size and mass) as well as between clutch size and egg parameters …

A central tenet of life-history theory is that investment in reproduction compromises survival.
We tested for costs of reproduction in wild brown anoles (Anolis sagrei) by eliminating …

Fundamental to life-history theory is the assumed inverse proportionality between the
number of offspring and the resource allocation per offspring. Lizards have been model …

Variation among individuals is the raw material for natural selection (Darwin 1859). Natural
selection acts on variation in traits, but because of genetically based trade-offs, adaptive …

The numbers and sizes of eggs produced by adult females ultimately determine the viability
of populations, as well as the evolutionary fitness of the females themselves. Despite an …

Within a single clutch, smaller species of ectotherms generally lay a smaller number of
relatively larger eggs than do larger species. Many hypotheses explaining both the …

In squamate reptiles there is an allometric pattern for small‐bodied females to have smaller
clutches and proportionally larger eggs than large‐bodied females, and this pattern occurs …