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The traditional model of highly plastic and indeterminate growth would correspond more to a long-term action of a sex-specific growth regulator. On the other hand, determinate growth would be more consistent with a regulator acting in a sex-specific manner on the activity of bone growth plates operating during the phase when a dimorphism in size develops. We followed the growth of males and females of the male-larger Madagascar ground gecko (<jats:italic>Paroedura picta<\/jats:italic>) and monitored the activity of bone growth plates, gonad size, levels of steroids, expression of their receptors (<jats:italic>AR, ESR1<\/jats:italic>), and expression of genes from the insulin-like growth factor network (<jats:italic>IGF1<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>IGF2<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>IGF1R,<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>IGF2R<\/jats:italic>) in livers. 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