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Hormones and Behavior 38, 222–233 (2000) doi:10.1006/hbeh.2000.1622, available online at on Testosterone, Endurance, and Darwinian Fitness: Natural and Sexual Selection on the Physiological Bases of Alternative Male Behaviors in Side- Blotched Lizards , ,1 Barry Sinervo,* † Donald B. Miles,‡ W. Anthony Frankino,† Matthew Klukowski,† and Dale F. DeNardo§ *Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064; †Department of Biology and Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47401; ‡Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701; and §Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 Received June 17, 1998; revised September 7, 2000; accepted September 14, 2000 The mechanistic bases of natural and sexual selection transformed to blue also had significantly higher plasma on physiological and behavioral traits were examined in T late in the season compared to the plasma T earlier in male morphs of three colors of the side-blotched lizard, the season. T appears to play an important role in the Uta stansburiana. Orange-throated males are aggres- physiological changes that all three color morphs un- sive and defend large territories with many females. dergo during the process of maturation. In some yellow Blue-throated males defend smaller territories with males, T plays an additional role in plastic changes in fewer females; however, blue-throated males assidu- behavior and physiology late in the reproductive season. ously mate guard females on their territory. Yellow- We discuss natural and sexual selection on physiologi- throated males do not defend a territory, but