Functional consequences of acute temperature stress in the western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis
Understanding the effects of natural variation in environmental temperature on organisms and how those organisms evolve to live in different thermal environments is a central tenet of evolutionary physiology. Phenotypic differences among populations are the result of local adaptation, innate genetic...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2010
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3397733 |