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Environmental and endocrine correlates of tactic switching by nonterritorial male tree lizards (Urosaurus ornatus).
Hormones and behavior - 1 Jan 2003
Knapp Rosemary, Hews Diana K, Thompson Christopher W, Ray Lauren E, Moore Michael C
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Animals often exhibit individual variation in their behavioral responses to the same stimuli in the biotic or abiotic environment. To elucidate the endocrine mechanisms mediating such behavioral variation, we have been studying a species of lizard with two distinct male phenotypes. Here we document behavioral variation across years in one of the two male phenotypes of the tree lizard, Urosaurus ornatus, and...
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