It is all in the head: Morphological basis for differences in bite force among colour morphs of the Dalmatian wall lizard

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-22

  Huyghe, Katleen ^a   Herrel, Anthony ^a,b   Adriaens, Dominique ^c   Tadić, Zoran ^d   Van Damme, Raoul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Geometric morphometrics; Muscle mass; Performance; Podarcis; Shape

Indexed keywords

COLOR MORPH; CRANIUM; HORMONE; LIZARD; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY;

PODARCIS; PODARCIS MELISELLENSIS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 58149095422     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01103.x     Document Type: Article

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