Ontogenetic variation in growth and sexual size dimorphism in a central Arizona population of the western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox)

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 1, 1998, Pages 40-47

  Beaupre, Steven J ^a,b   Duvall, David ^a,c   O'Leile, Jack ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROTALUS ATROX;

EID: 0032477763     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447700     Document Type: Article

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