Inter-sexual signalling and the functions of female coloration in the tropidurid lizard Microlophus occipitalis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 843-852

  Watkins, Graham G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROLOPHUS OCCIPITALIS;

COLOUR; COURTSHIP; LIZARD; SIGNALLING;

EID: 0031107081     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0350     Document Type: Article

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