Both incubation temperature and posthatching temperature affect swimming performance and morphology of wood frog tadpoles (Rana sylvatica)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 140-149

  Watkins, Timothy B ^a,b   Vraspir, Julia ^a  

^a MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Normandale Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FROG; INCUBATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; SWIMMING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; FROG; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; LARVA; OVUM; PHENOTYPE; RANIDAE; SWIMMING; TEMPERATURE;

ANURA; RANA SYLVATICA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 30944443437     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498182     Document Type: Article

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