Emerging model systems in eco-evo-devo: The environmentally responsive spadefoot toad

Evolution and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 391-400

  Ledón Rettig, Cris C ^a   Pfennig, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; TOAD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE;

PELOBATIDAE;

EID: 79960155989     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2011.00494.x     Document Type: Article

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