Male Snakes Allocate Time and Energy according to Individual Energetic Status: Body Condition, Steroid Hormones, and Reproductive Behavior in Timber Rattlesnakes, Crotalus horridus

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  2015

• Venue

  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

• Publication date

  2015-08-05

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/683058PMID 26658410
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