Metabolic cost of development in one of the world's smallest lizard eggs: Implications for physiological advantages of the amniote egg

Copeia

Volumn , Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1016-1020

  Thompson, Michael B ^a   Russell, Kylie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032583584     PISSN: 00458511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1447350     Document Type: Article

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