Mating Systems, Reproductive Success, and Sexual Selection in Secretive Species: A Case Study of the Western Diamond-Backed Rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox

• Rulon W. Clark ,

  * E-mail: rclark@mail.sdsu.edu (RC); gwschuett@yahoo.com or gschuett@gsu.edu (GS)

  Affiliation Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Gordon W. Schuett ,

  * E-mail: rclark@mail.sdsu.edu (RC); gwschuett@yahoo.com or gschuett@gsu.edu (GS)

  Affiliations Department of Biology and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, The Copperhead Institute, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States of America, Chiricahua Desert Museum, Rodeo, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Roger A. Repp,

  Affiliation National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Melissa Amarello,

  Affiliation Social Snakes, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Charles F. Smith,

  Affiliations The Copperhead Institute, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States of America, Chiricahua Desert Museum, Rodeo, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Biology, Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Hans-Werner Herrmann

  Affiliation School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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