Interfamily variation in amphibian early life-history traits: Raw material for natural selection?

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1637-1643

  Hopkins, Gareth R ^a   Gall, Brian G ^a   French, Susannah S ^a   Brodie Jr , Edmund D ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Egg; Embryonic development; Hatching; Salamandridae; Taricha granulosa; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871244550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.287     Document Type: Article

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