Conservation of mass-specific metabolic rate among high- and low-elevation populations of the acridid grasshopper Xanthippus corallipes

Physiological Zoology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 701-711

  Ashby, Patricia Daly ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

XANTHIPPUS CORALLIPES;

EID: 0031282544     PISSN: 0031935X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515877     Document Type: Article

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