Rock, paper, scissors, lizard
Male side-blotched lizards (Uta stansburiana) have three heritable throat colors, associated with three divergent mating strategies. In the 19 December Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Zamudio and Sinervo find that these alternative mating strategies can stably coexist because, as in a game of rock, paper, scissors, each strategy has strengths over one other, and weaknesses in the face of the third (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2000, published online ahead of print). The strategy of bl
Dec 12, 2000
Male side-blotched lizards (