Body Size, Performance and Fitness in Galapagos Marine Iguanas1

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Integrative and Comparative Biology

• Publication date

  2003-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/icb/43.3.376PMID 21680446
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