Road to evolution? Local adaptation to road adjacency in an amphibian (Ambystoma maculatum)

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Brady, Steven P ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMBYSTOMA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMBYSTOMA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 84859771709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00235     Document Type: Article

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