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The causes and ecological correlates of head scale asymmetry and fragmentation in a tropical snake

The challenge of identifying the proximate causes and ecological consequences of phenotypic variation can be facilitated by studying traits that are usually but not always bilaterally symmetrical; deviations from symmetry likely reflect disrupted embryogenesis. Based on a 19-year mark-recapture stud...

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Autores principales: Brown, Gregory P., Madsen, Thomas, Dubey, Sylvain, Shine, Rick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5595785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28900296
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11768-y