Stimulation of Reproductive Activity of Female Anolis sagrei by Moisture
@article{Brown1973StimulationOR,
title={Stimulation of Reproductive Activity of Female Anolis sagrei by Moisture},
author={Kathren M. Brown and Owen J. Sexton},
journal={Physiological Zoology},
year={1973},
volume={46},
pages={168 - 172}
}Many earlier descriptive studies of the annual reproductive cycles of tropical and subtropical lizards have commented upon the positive relationship between onset of reproduction and recurrence of preciptation (Daniel 1960; Marshall and Hook 1960; Church 1962; Chapman and Chapman 1964; Harris 1964; Inger and Greenberg 1966; Licht and Gorman 1970; Sexton et al. 1971; Sexton and Turner 1971). There seems to have been little controlled experimentation to verify the logical hypothesis that rainfall…
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