Are powerful females powerful enough? Acceleration in gravid green iguanas (Iguana iguana)

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 285-294

  Scales, Jeffrey ^a   Butler, Marguerite ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IGUANA IGUANA; IGUANIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 34547817119     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icm054     Document Type: Article

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