Distribution of energy reserves in a viviparous skink: Does tail autotomy involve the loss of lipid stores?

Austral Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 565-572

  Chapple, David G ^a,b   Swain, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autotomy; Cost of reproduction; Fat body; Niveoscincus metallicus; Predation; Reproduction; Scincidae; Tail loss

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AUTOTOMY; FAT RESERVE; LIZARD; VIVIPARITY;

ANIMALIA; NIVEOSCINCUS METALLICUS; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0012467009     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2002.01217.x     Document Type: Article

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