Sexual Selection and Sexual Dimorphism

Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Lizards and Tuatara

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 78-108

  Cox, Robert M ^a   Kahrl, Ariel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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