Do pregnant lizards resorb or abort inviable eggs and embryos? Morphological evidence from an Australian skink, Pseudemoia pagenstecheri

Journal of Morphology

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 219-234

  Blackburn, Daniel G ^a   Weaber, Kera K ^a   Stewart, James R ^b,d   Thompson, Michael B ^c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Egg resorption; Oviduct; Placentotrophy; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOLOGICAL PREPARATION TECHNIQUES; LIZARDS; OVUM; UTERUS;

PSEUDEMOIA; PSEUDEMOIA PAGENSTECHERI; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0038477017     PISSN: 03622525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10094     Document Type: Article

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