Evolution of anuran brains: disentangling ecological and phylogenetic sources of variation

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Journal of Evolutionary Biology

• Publication date

  2015-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/jeb.12714PMID 26248891
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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