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The causes and ecological correlates of head scale asymmetry and fragmentation in a tropical snake.

Scientific reports - 12 Sept 2017

Brown Gregory P, Madsen Thomas, Dubey Sylvain, Shine Rick

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The challenge of identifying the proximate causes and ecological consequences of phenotypic variation can be facilitated by studying traits that are usually but not always bilaterally symmetrical; deviations from symmetry likely reflect disrupted embryogenesis. Based on a 19-year mark-recapture study of >1300 slatey-grey snakes (Stegonotus cucullatus) in tropical Australia, and incubation of >700 eggs, we...

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PMID: 28900296
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11768-y
PMCID: PMC5595785

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