High costs of female choice in a lekking lizard.

Among receptive females there was no relationship between initial body mass and the quality of males visited; however, receptive females that visited high-quality males spent more energy on mate choice, lost more mass, and showed a strong trend towards developing smaller follicles ( Fig 2a–c ).

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Females that spent more time on the territories of high-quality, high-activity males displayed greater energetic expenditure on mate choice, lost more mass, and showed a trend towards producing smaller follicles.

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