Interactive effects of sex and temperature on locomotion in reptiles

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 189-199

  Lailvaux, Simon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 34547748926     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icm011     Document Type: Article

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