Telling Tails: Selective Pressures Acting on Investment in Lizard Tails
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Telling tails: selective pressures acting on investment in lizard tails.
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عنوان ژورنال: Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1522-2152,1537-5293
DOI: 10.1086/673864