The relationship between skull morphology, biting performance and foraging mode in Kalahari lacertid lizards

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 403-416

  Mcbrayer, Lance D ^a  

^a STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bite force; Feeding; Functional morphology; Lacertidae; Performance; Phylogenetic mapping

Indexed keywords

LACERTIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 1642343726     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00106.x     Document Type: Article

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