Body size clines in Sceloporus lizards: Proximate mechanisms and demographic constraints

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 433-442

  Sears, Michael W ^a,b   Angilletta Jr , Michael J ^a  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; SCELOPORUS; SCELOPORUS GRACIOSUS; SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 13844256629     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/44.6.433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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