Male morphs in tree lizards, Urosaurus ornatus, have different delayed hormonal responses to aggressive encounters

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1045-1055

  Knapp, Rosemary ^a   Moore, Michael C ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SQUAMATA; UROSAURUS ORNATUS;

AGGRESSION; HORMONE; STEROID; TREE LIZARD;

EID: 0030274201     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0251     Document Type: Article

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