Plausibility of inferred ancestral phenotypes and the evaluation of alternative models of limb evolution in scincid lizards

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Biology Letters

• Publication date

  2010-06-23

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0840PMID 20007166PMCID PMC2880043
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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