Ecological patterns of body-size and clutch-size variation in the parthenogenetic teiid lizard Cnemidophorus tesselatus

Herpetologica

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-54

  Taylor, Harry L ^a   Walker, James M ^b   Cordes, James E ^c  

^a REGIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clutch size; Cnemidophorus tesselatus; Color pattern classes; Ecology; Evolution; General purpose genotype hypothesis; Geographic variation; Parthenogenesis; Reproductive strategy; Reptilia; Squamata

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLUTCH SIZE; CNEMIDOPHORUS GULARIS; CNEMIDOPHORUS TIGRIS; CNEMIDOPHORUS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYBRIDIZATION; MUTATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; SIZE; SYMPATRY; UNITED STATES;

BODY SIZE; CLUTCH SIZE; LIZARD;

UNITED STATES;

CNEMIDOPHORUS TESSELATUS;

EID: 0034013639     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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