Prey capture and prey processing behavior and the evolution of lingual and sensory characteristics: Divergences and convergences in lizard feeding biology

Lizard Ecology: The Evolutionary Consequences of Foraging Mode

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 302-333

  Reilly, Stephen M ^a   McBrayer, Lance D ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511752438.012     Document Type: Chapter

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