The origin of snake feeding

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6745, 1999, Pages 655-658

  Lee, Michael S Y ^a   Bell Jr , Gorden L ^b   Caldwell, Michael W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FEEDING MECHANISM; SKULL; SNAKE;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0033549805     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23236     Document Type: Article

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