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Traditional and revised models of growth and ontogeny of sexual size dimorphism in lizards
(A and B) In reptiles, the traditional model (A) assumes indeterminate growth and sexual size dimorphism directly reflecting the sex-specific costs of reproduction. The revised model (B) postulates reptiles as determinate growers whose bone growth plate activity is as in mammals influenced by sex-specific modifiers, particularly ovarian hormones.
