Barry R. Sinervo

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The rock–paper–scissors game and the evolution of alternative male strategies

MANY species exhibit colour polymorphisms associated with alternative male reproductive strategies, including territorial males and 'sneaker males' that behave and look like females1–3. The… (More)

Testosterone, Endurance, and Darwinian Fitness: Natural and Sexual Selection on the Physiological Bases of Alternative Male Behaviors in Side-Blotched Lizards

Barry R. Sinervo, Donald Miles, William Anthony Frankino, M Klukowski, Dale F DeNardo
Hormones and Behavior
2000

The mechanistic bases of natural and sexual selection on physiological and behavioral traits were examined in male morphs of three colors of the side-blotched lizard, Uta stansburiana.… (More)

Erosion of lizard diversity by climate change and altered thermal niches.

Barry R. Sinervo, Fausto Méndez-de-la-Cruz, +23 authors Jack W Jr Sites
Science
2010

It is predicted that climate change will cause species extinctions and distributional shifts in coming decades, but data to validate these predictions are relatively scarce. Here, we compare recent… (More)

Density cycles and an offspring quantity and quality game driven by natural selection

Barry R. Sinervo, Erik Svensson, Tosha Comendant
Nature
2000

A long-standing hypothesis posits that natural selection can favour two female strategies when density cycles. At low density, females producing many smaller progeny are favoured when the intrinsic… (More)

Density-dependent competition and selection on immune function in genetic lizard morphs.

Erik I Svensson, Barry R. Sinervo, Tosha Comendant
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
2001

Density-dependent territorial interactions have been suggested to cause immunosuppression and thereby decrease fitness, but empirical support from natural populations is lacking. Data from a natural… (More)

Social causes of correlational selection and the resolution of a heritable throat color polymorphism in a lizard.

Barry R. Sinervo, Colin Bleay, Chloe Adamopoulou
Evolution; international journal of organic…
2001

When selection acts on social or behavioral traits, the fitness of an individual depends on the phenotypes of its competitors. Here, we describe methods and statistical inference for measuring… (More)

THE EFFECTS OF MORPHOLOGY AND PERCH DIAMETER ON SPRINT PERFORMANCE OF ANOLIS LIZARDS

Jonathan B Losos, Barry R. Sinervo
2005

We investigated the mechanistic basis for the observed correlation between leg length and perch size among West Indian Anolis lizards by testing the hypothesis that species use those perches upon… (More)

Allometric engineering: a causal analysis of natural selection on offspring size.

Barry R. Sinervo, Kelly R Zamudio, Paul Doughty, Raymond B. Huey
Science
1992

Techniques of offspring size manipulation, "allometric engineering," were used in combination with studies of natural selection to elucidate the causal relation between egg size and offspring… (More)

Correlational selection and the evolution of genomic architecture

We review and discuss the importance of correlational selection (selection for optimal character combinations) in natural populations. If two or more traits subject to multivariate selection are… (More)

Polygyny, mate-guarding, and posthumous fertilization as alternative male mating strategies.

Kelly R Zamudio, Barry R. Sinervo
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
2000

Alternative male mating strategies within populations are thought to be evolutionarily stable because different behaviors allow each male type to successfully gain access to females. Although… (More)

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