Reassessment of the environmental mechanisms controlling developmental polyphenism in spadefoot toad tadpoles

Oecologia

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 402-410

  Storz, Brian L ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnivore; Omnivore; Polyphenism; Spea multiplicata; Thyroxine

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; OMNIVORY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; TOAD;

ANURA; PELOBATIDAE; SPEA MULTIPLICATA;

THYROXINE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIET; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FROGS AND TOADS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREDATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANURA; DIET; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; THYROXINE;

EID: 16644390459     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1672-6     Document Type: Article

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