Pregnancy decreases set point temperatures for behavioural thermoregulation in the wall lizard Podarcis muralis

Herpetological Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 94-96

  Tosini, Gianluca ^a,b   Avery, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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