Testosterone cycles and reproductive energetics: Implications for northern range limits of the cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma)

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-240

  Zaidan III, Frederic ^a,b   Kreider, David L ^a   Beaupre, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; LIMITING FACTOR; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SNAKE; TEMPERATURE; TESTOSTERONE; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ARKANSAS; UNITED STATES;

AGKISTRODON; AGKISTRODON PISCIVORUS; AGKISTRODON PISCIVORUS LEUCOSTOMA; AMPHIBIA; LEUCOSTOMA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA; VISCUM; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 0038461933     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2003)003[0231:TCAREI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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