Associations of male red-backed salamanders with tail-intact versus tail-autotomized females during the courtship season

Journal of Herpetology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 532-535

  Meche, Gayna ^a   Jaeger, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIUMA MEANS; CAUDATA; PLETHODON CINEREUS;

EID: 0036748973     PISSN: 00221511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1670/0022-1511(2002)036[0532:AOMRBS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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