• DOI:10.1086/673282
Corpus ID: 25612107

Correlated Evolution of Allometry and Sexual Dimorphism across Higher Taxa

@article{Lisle2013CorrelatedEO,
  title={Correlated Evolution of Allometry and Sexual Dimorphism across Higher Taxa},
  author={S. D. De Lisle and L. Rowe},
  journal={The American Naturalist},
  year={2013},
  volume={182},
  pages={630 - 639}
}

• S. D. De Lisle, L. Rowe
• Published 2013
• Biology, Medicine
• The American Naturalist

Empirical evidence suggests that Rensch’s rule of allometric scaling of male and female body size, which states that body size divergence is greater across males than across females of a clade, is not universal. In fact, quantitative genetic theory indicates that the sex under historically stronger directional selection will exhibit greater interspecific variance in size. Thus, the pattern of covariance between allometry of male and female body size and sexual size dimorphism (SSD) across… Expand

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