Use of metabolic substrates in the gray treefrog Hyla versicolor.: Implications for calling behavior

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 2, 1997, Pages 356-362

  Grafe, Ulmar ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYLA; HYLA VERSICOLOR;

EID: 0030973514     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447755     Document Type: Article

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