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Cox, R.M., and R. Calsbeek. Severe costs of reproduction persist in Anolis lizards despite the evolution of a single-egg clutch. Evolution
Cox, R.M., and R. Calsbeek. Sex-specific selection and intraspecific variation in sexual size dimorphism. Evolution
Cox, R.M. Body size and sexual dimorphism. Article in The Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. Edited by M. Breed and J. Moore. Elsevier. Scheduled to appear online in 2010.
Connallon, T., R.M. Cox, and R. Calsbeek. Fitness consequences of sex-specific selection. Evolution
Calsbeek, R., L.A. Bonvini, and R.M. Cox. Geographic variation, frequency-dependent selection, and the maintenance of a female-limited polymorphism. Evolution
2009
Cox, R.M., and R. Calsbeek. Sexually antagonistic selection, sexual dimorphism, and the resolution of intralocus sexual conflict. American Naturalist 173: 176-187.
Cox, R.M., D.S. Stenquist*, and R. Calsbeek. Testosterone, growth, and the evolution of sexual size dimorphism. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 1586-1598. Cover photo
Cox, R.M., D.S. Stenquist*, J.P. Henningsen, and R. Calsbeek. Manipulating testosterone to assess links between behavior, morphology and performance in the brown anole, Anolis sagrei. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 82: 686-698.
John-Alder, H.B., R.M. Cox, G. Haenel, and L. Smith. Hormones, performance and fitness: natural history and endocrine experiments on a lizard (Sceloporus undulatus). Integrative and Comparative Biology 49:393-407.
2008
Cox, R.M., V. Zilberman*, and H.B. John-Alder. Testosterone stimulates the expression of a social color signal in Yarrow's spiny lizard, Sceloporus jarrovii. Journal of Experimental Zoology 309A: 505-514.
Cox, R.M., M.M. Barrett*, and H.B. John-Alder. Effects of food restriction on growth, energy allocation, and sexual size dimorphism in Yarrow's spiny lizard, Sceloporus jarrovii. Canadian Journal of Zoology 86: 268-276.
Cox, R.M., A. Munoz-Garcia, M. Jurkowitz, and J.B. Williams. Beta-glucocerebrosidase activity in the stratum corneum of house sparrows following acclimation to high and low humidity. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 81: 97-105.
Munoz-Garcia, A., R.M. Cox, and J.B. Williams. Phenotypic flexibility in cutaneous water loss and lipids of the stratum corneum in house sparrows (Passer domesticus) following acclimation to high or low humidity. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 81: 87-96.
Carsia, R.V., P.J. McIlroy, R.M. Cox, M. Barrett, and H.B. John-Alder. Gonadal modulation of in vitro steroidogenic properties of dispersed adrenocortical cells from Sceloporus lizards. General and Comparative Endocrinology 158: 202-210.
Carsia, R.V., P.J. McIlroy, R.M. Cox, M. Barrett, and H.B. John-Alder. Adrenal steroidogenesis in reptiles: insights from dispersed adrenocortical cells from Sceloporus lizards. Chapter 3 in Recent Advances in Non-Mammalian Adrenal Gland Research. Edited by A. Capaldo. Research Signpost.
2007
Cox, R.M. and H.B. John-Alder. Increased mite parasitism as a cost of testosterone in male striped plateau lizards, Sceloporus virgatus. Functional Ecology 21: 327-334.
Cox, R.M. and H.B. John-Alder. Growing apart together: the development of contrasting sexual size dimorphisms in sympatric Sceloporus lizards. Herpetologica 63: 245-257.
Cox, R.M., M.A. Butler, and H.B. John-Alder. The evolution of sexual size dimorphism in reptiles. Chapter 4 in Sex, Size & Gender Roles: Evolutionary Studies of Sexual Size Dimorphism. Edited by D.J. Fairbairn, W.U. Blanckenhorn, and T. Szekely. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
John-Alder, H.B., and R.M. Cox. The development of sexual size dimorphism in Sceloporus lizards: testosterone as a bipotential growth regulator. Chapter 19 in Sex, Size & Gender Roles: Evolutionary Studies of Sexual Size Dimorphism. Edited by D.J. Fairbairn, W.U. Blanckenhorn, and T. Szekely. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
John-Alder, H.B., R.M. Cox, and E.N. Taylor. Proximate developmental mediators of sexual dimorphism in size: case studies from squamate reptiles. Integrative and Comparative Biology 47: 258-271.
2006
Cox, R.M. A test of the reproductive cost hypothesis for sexual size dimorphism in Yarrow's spiny lizard, Sceloporus jarrovii. Journal of Animal Ecology 75: 1361-1369.
Cox, R.M., V. Zilberman*, and H.B. John-Alder. Environmental sensitivity of sexual size dimorphism: laboratory common garden removes effects of sex and castration on lizard growth. Functional Ecology 20: 880-888.
2005
Cox, R.M. and H.B. John-Alder. Testosterone has opposite effects on male growth in lizards (Sceloporus spp.) with opposite patterns of sexual size dimorphism. Journal of Experimental Biology 208: 4679-4687. Featured Inside JEB
Cox, R.M., S.L. Skelly, A. Leo*, and H.B. John-Alder. Testosterone regulates sexually dimorphic coloration in the eastern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus. Copeia 2005: 597-608.
Cox, R.M., S.L. Skelly, and H.B. John-Alder. Testosterone inhibits growth of juvenile male eastern fence lizards (Sceloporus undulatus): implications for energy allocation and sexual size dimorphism. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 78: 531-545.
2003
Cox, R.M., S.L. Skelly, and H.B. John-Alder. A comparative test of adaptive hypotheses for sexual size dimorphism in lizards. Evolution 57: 1653-1669.
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*indicates undergraduate coauthor
