Hormones, performance and fitness: Natural history and endocrine experiments on a lizard (Sceloporus undulatus)

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 393-407

  John Alder, Henry B ^a   Cox, Robert M ^b   Haenel, Gregory J ^c   Smith, Linda C ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

^c ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCELOPORUS UNDULATUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 70349439070     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icp060     Document Type: Article

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