Growth Divergence: Sexual size differences were studied in the African bullfrog ("Pyxicephalus adspersus"), a species in which adult males are about 2.5 times larger than females. The growth profile shows that males and females begin to differentiate in growth at 4 weeks after metamorphosis, at the same time as the appearance of differentiated gonads.
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