Incubation temperature affects hatching success, embryonic expenditure of energy and hatchling phenotypes of a prolonged egg-retaining snake, Deinagkistrodon acutus (Viperidae)

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 289-297

  Lin, Zhi Hua ^a,c   Ji, Xiang ^b,c   Luo, Lai Gao ^c   Ma, Xiao Mei ^c  

^a LISHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HANGZHOU NORMAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Deinagkistrodon acutus; Egg; Hatching success; Hatchling phenotype; Incubation; Reproductive output; Reptilia; Viperidae

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRY MASS; EGG YOLK; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HATCHING; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SNAKE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

DEINAGKISTRODON ACUTUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 17444388536     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2005.01.002     Document Type: Article

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