The Role of Sex-specific Plasticity in Shaping Sexual Dimorphism in a Long-lived Vertebrate, the Snapping Turtle Chelydra serpentina

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-181

  Ceballos, Claudia Patricia ^a   Valenzuela, Nicole ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive canalization; Chelydra serpentina; Condition dependence; Phenotypic plasticity; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

CHELYDRA SERPENTINA; INVERTEBRATA; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955626590     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-011-9117-8     Document Type: Article

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