Facultative placentotrophy: Half-way house or strategic solution?

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 441-451

  Swain, R ^a   Jones, S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clutch reduction; Fat reserves; Lizards; Neonate; Niveoscincus; Offspring fitness; Placentotrophy; Vitellogenesis; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FITNESS; FOOD INTAKE; LIPID STORAGE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OVIDUCT; OVULATION INDUCTION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; REVIEW; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; NIVEOSCINCUS; NIVEOSCINCUS METALLICUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0034527731     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(00)00275-0     Document Type: Review

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