The quick and the fast: The evolution of acceleration capacity in Anolis lizards

Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2137-2147

  Vanhooydonck, Bieke ^a,b   Herrel, Anthony ^a,b   Van Damme, Raoul ^b   Irschick, Duncan J ^a,c  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparison; Ecomorphology; Interspecific; Locomotion; Muscle; Performance

Indexed keywords

ECOMORPHOLOGY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOTYPE;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; LIZARDS; MALE; SOMATOTYPES;

ANOLIS; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33751326109     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1554/06-413.1     Document Type: Article

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