Body size evolution in insular speckled rattlesnakes (viperidae: Crotalus mitchellii)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Meik, Jesse M ^a   Michelle Lawing, A ^b   Pires daSilva, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CEPHALOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DWARFISM; GIGANTISM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PREY; SNAKE; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

CROTALUS; CROTALUS MITCHELLII; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA; VIPERIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CROTALUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; MEXICO; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77949725810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009524     Document Type: Article

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