Running in cold weather: Morphology, thermal biology, and performance in the southernmost lizard clade in the world (Liolaemus lineomaculatus section: Liolaemini: Iguania)

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Volumn 315 A, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 495-503

  Bonino, Marcelo Fabián ^a   Azócar, Débora Lina Moreno ^a   Tulli, María José ^b   Abdala, Cristian Simón ^b,c   Perotti, María Gabriela ^a   Cruz, Félix Benjamín ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente Bariloche   (Argentina)

^b CONICET Instituto de Herpetologia ^*  (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COLD; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; THERMOREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD TEMPERATURE; LIZARDS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYLOGENY; RUNNING;

IGUANIA; LIOLAEMUS; LIOLAEMUS LINEOMACULATUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 80052591188     PISSN: 19325223     EISSN: 19325231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.697     Document Type: Article

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