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Gary W. Ferguson, Stanley F. Fox, Annual Variation of Survival Advantage of Large Juvenile Side-Blotched Lizards, Uta stansburiana: Its Causes and Evolutionary Significance, Evolution, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Mar., 1984), pp. 342-349
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