Morphology, ornaments and performance in two chameleon ecomorphs: is the casque bigger than the bite?

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Zoology

• Publication date

  2009-05-15

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.zool.2008.09.005PMID 19230632
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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