Gaby Mastromonaco

Abstract Male and female rodents experience different selective pressures associated with reproductive costs. Thus, we may expect the expression of different Pace-of-life (POL) strategies between sexes. Further, the pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis and anisogamy predict differences in the costs of gamete production, where variation in life history trait expression should follow a fast-slow continuum such that males and females might exist on opposite ends of the spectrum.