Variation in eggshell characteristics and in intrauterine egg retention between two oviparous clades of the lizard Lacerta vivipara: Insight into the oviparity-viviparity continuum in squamates

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 252, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 255-262

  Heulin, Benoit ^a,e   Ghielmi, Samuele ^b   Vogrin, Nusa ^c   Surget Groba, Yann ^a   Guillaume, Claude Pierre ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b Civico Museo Insubrico di Storia Naturale   (Italy)

^c Laboratoire de Parasitologie Pharmaceutique ^*  (Slovenia)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e Station Biologique   (France)

Author keywords

Eggshell; Lacerta vivipara; Oviparity; Squamates; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EGG SHELL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FRANCE; ITALY; LIZARDS; OVIPOSITION; REPRODUCTION; SLOVENIA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ANIMALS;

LACERTA; SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EGG LAYING; EGG SHELL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FRANCE; ITALY; LIZARD; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION; SLOVENIA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0036018092     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.1103     Document Type: Article

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