Locomotor endurance predicts differences in realized dispersal between sympatric sexual and unisexual salamanders
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dispersal between sympatric sexual and unisexual salamanders Robert D. Denton*, Katherine R. Greenwald and H. Lisle Gibbs Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, 300 Aronoff Laboratory, 318 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Ohio Biodiversity Conservation Partnership, Ohio State University, 300 Aronoff Laboratory, 318 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; and Department of Biology, Eastern Michigan University, 441 Mark Jefferson Science Complex, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA
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