Did embryonic responses to incubation conditions drive the evolution of reproductive modes in squamate reptiles?

Herpetological Monographs

Volumn , Issue 20, 2006, Pages 159-171

  Shine, Richard ^a   Thompson, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Embryo; Lizard; Oviparity; Snake; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33846201666     PISSN: 07331347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1655/0733-1347(2007)20[159:dertic]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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