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2008
Cox, R.M., and R. Calsbeek (2008) Sexually antagonistic selection, sexual dimorphism, and the resolution of intralocus sexual conflict. The American Naturalist in press.
Cox, R.M., V. Zilberman, and H.B. John-Alder (2008) Testosterone stimulates the expression of a social color signal in Yarrow's spiny lizard, Sceloporus jarrovii. Journal of Experimental Zoology 309A: in press.
Carsia, R.V., P.J. McIlroy, R.M. Cox, M. Barrett, and H.B. John-Alder (2008) Gonadal modulation of in vitro steroidogenic properties of dispersed adrenocortical cells from Sceloporus lizards. General and Comparative Endocrinology in press.
Cox, R.M., M.M. Barrett, and H.B. John-Alder (2008) 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. PDF
Cox, R.M., A. Munoz-Garcia, M. Jurkowitz, and J.B. Williams (2008) Beta-glucocerebrosidase activity in the stratum corneum of house sparrows following acclimation to high and low humidity. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 81:97-105. PDF
Munoz-Garcia, A., R.M. Cox, and J.B. Williams (2008) 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. PDF
2007
Cox, R.M., M.A. Butler, and H.B. John-Alder (2007) 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.** PDF
John-Alder, H.B., and R.M. Cox (2007) 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.** PDF
** Check out Sex, Size & Gender Roles: Evolutionary Studies of Sexual Size Dimorphism from Oxford University Press.
Cox, R.M. and H.B. John-Alder (2007) Growing apart together: the development of contrasting sexual size dimorphisms in sympatric Sceloporus lizards. Herpetologica 63: 245-257. PDF
John-Alder, H.B., R.M. Cox, and E.N. Taylor. (2007) Proximate developmental mediators of sexual dimorphism in size: case studies from squamate reptiles. Integrative and Comparative Biology 47: 258-271. PDF
Cox, R.M. and H.B. John-Alder (2007) Increased mite parasitism as a cost of testosterone in male striped plateau lizards, Sceloporus virgatus. Functional Ecology 21: 327-334. PDF
2006
Cox, R.M. (2006) 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. PDF
Cox, R.M., V. Zilberman, and H.B. John-Alder (2006) Environmental sensitivity of sexual size dimorphism: laboratory common garden removes effects of sex and castration on lizard growth. Functional Ecology 20: 880-888. PDF
2005
Cox, R.M. and H.B. John-Alder (2005) 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* PDF
* Featured in Inside JEB: Can testosterone inhibit growth? by Kathryn Philips.
Cox, R.M., S.L. Skelly, A. Leo, and H.B. John-Alder (2005) Testosterone regulates sexually dimorphic coloration in the eastern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus. Copeia 2005: 597-608. PDF
Cox, R.M., S.L. Skelly, and H.B. John-Alder (2005) 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.PDF
2003
Cox, R.M., S.L. Skelly, and H.B. John-Alder (2003) A comparative test of adaptive hypotheses for sexual size dimorphism in lizards. Evolution 57: 1653-1669. PDF
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