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1 online resource |
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Reptiles--classification, evolution, and systems |
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Reptiles--classification, evolution, and systems.
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LIZARDS: THERMAL ECOLOGY, GENETIC DIVERSITY AND FUNCTIONAL ROLE IN ECOSYSTEMS; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: THE INFLUENCE OF LIGHT ON VISUAL DISCRIMINATION OF SEXUALLY DICHROMATIC DEWLAP COLOR IN MALE AND FEMALE BROWN ANOLES; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. METHODS; 3. RESULTS; 4. DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: TOLERANCE TO THERMAL STRESS IN LIZARD EMBRYOS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; METHODS; RESULTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES |
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Chapter 3: LEIOLEPIS GUTTATA (CUVIER, 1829): FROM THE WILD TO THE CAPTIVE BREEDING -- ETHOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND ITS FUNCTIONAL ROLE IN ECOSYSTEMSABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; TAXONOMY AND SYSTEMATICS; DESCRIPTION OF LEIOLEPIS GUTTATA (CUVIER, 1829); DISTRIBUTION; BIOLOGY; ETHOLOGY; ECOLOGY IN THE WILD; THE BREEDING OF LEIOLEPIS GUTTATA IN CAPTIVITY; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; APPENDIX 1. DIVERSITY OF REPTILES BUSH MEAT EATEN BY HUMAN POPULATIONS OF VIETNAM; APPENDIX 2. PLANT DIVERSITY OF FEEDSTUFFS DISTRIBUTED IN BREEDING ENCLOSURES (BAC BINH DISTRICT). MAIN ITEMS ARE IN BOLD; REFERENCES |
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Chapter 4: THERMOREGULATION IN COASTAL SAND DUNES: IMPACTS OF THE HABITAT MODIFICATION ON THE WIEGMANN'S LIZARDABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; RESEARCH METHODS; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5: CONVERGENCE IN MORPHOLOGY IS PRECEDED BY CONVERGENCE IN PERFORMANCE IN LIZARDS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; PERFORMANCE DIFFERENTIATION OF SYMPATRIC SPECIES; PERFORMANCE DIFFERENTIATION OF MORPHS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION OF PERFORMANCE; SIMILAR LIFE HISTORIES MAY LEAD TO CONVERGENCE IN PERFORMANCE; THIS IS NOT ALWAYS THE CASE ; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES |
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Chapter 6: SEXUAL DIMORPHISM AND THERMOREGULATORY BEHAVIOUR IN THE LONG-TAILED SPINY LIZARD, SCELOPORUS SINIFERUS FROM MEXICOABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; MATERIALS AND METHODS; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; INDEX |
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Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Lizards.
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Lizards -- Ecology
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Anatomy & Physiology.
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Lizards
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Lizards -- Ecology
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kiernan, Mindy P., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781633210189 |
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1633210189 |
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