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Body Size Evolution in Insular Speckled Rattlesnakes (Viperidae: Crotalus mitchellii)

BACKGROUND: Speckled rattlesnakes (Crotalus mitchellii) inhabit multiple islands off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. Two of the 14 known insular populations have been recognized as subspecies based primarily on body size divergence from putative mainland ancestral populations; however, a surve...

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Autores principales: Meik, Jesse M., Lawing, A. Michelle, Pires-daSilva, André
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2832004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20209105
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009524