Female territorial aggression and steroid hormones in mountain spiny lizards

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1083-1089

  Woodley, Sarah K ^a   Moore, Michael C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; LIZARD; SEASONALITY; STEROID; TERRITORIALITY;

SCELOPORUS; SCELOPORUS JARROVI; SCELOPORUS JARROVII JARROVII; SPINY; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033135625     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1080     Document Type: Article

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