Egg Components and Hatchling Lipid Reserves: Parental Investment in Kinosternid Turtles from the Southeastern United States

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 145-152

  Nagle, Roy D ^a,b   Burke, Vincent J ^a,c   Congdon, Justin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b JUNIATA COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Egg; Hatchlings; Iatroscan; Kinosternon; Lipids; Parental investment; Reptiles; Sternotherus; TLC FID; Turtles

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL ESTER; LIPID; PHOSPHOLIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY BALANCE; FEMALE; HATCHING; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID STORAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TURTLE;

KINOSTERNIDAE; KINOSTERNON; KINOSTERNON BAURII; KINOSTERNON SUBRUBRUM; REPTILIA; STERNOTHERUS; STERNOTHERUS MINOR; STERNOTHERUS ODORATUS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0031875826     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(98)10003-2     Document Type: Article

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