Getting up to speed: Acceleration strategies in the Florida scrub lizard, Sceloporus woodi

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 643-653

  McElroy, Eric J ^a   McBrayer, Lance D ^b  

^a School of Business   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIMB; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; MOMENTUM; MUSCLE; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VIDEORECORDING;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; LIZARDS; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; VIDEO RECORDING; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA;

ANIMALIA; SCELOPORUS WOODI; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955704649     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/653476     Document Type: Article

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