Maternal body-volume as a constraint on
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Carl P. Qualls; Richard Shine
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Article
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1995
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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A few species of squamate reptiles contain both oviparous (egg-laying) and viviparous (live-bearing) populations, and thus offer exceptional opportunities to test adaptationist hypotheses on the determinants of reproductive output. We focus on the hypothesis that maternal body-volume constrains repr