Age and season impact resource allocation to eggs and nesting behavior in the painted turtle

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 996-1004

  Harms, Heidi K ^a,b   Paitz, Ryan T ^a,b   Bowden, Rachel M ^a,b   Janzen, Fredric J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; LIFE HISTORY; NESTING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TURTLE;

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; NESTING; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; TURTLE; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; ILLINOIS; LIPID METABOLISM; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; TURTLES;

CHRYSEMYS; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 27744522176     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/432920     Document Type: Article

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