The adaptive significance of temperature-dependent sex determination in a reptile

Nature

Volumn 451, Issue 7178, 2008, Pages 566-568

  Warner, D A ^a,b   Shine, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CHROMOSOME; CLADISTICS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENOTYPE; HORMONE; INCUBATION; LIZARD; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REPTILE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AMPHIBOLURUS MURICATUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; LIZARD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REPTILE; SEX DETERMINATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VERTEBRATE;

AGAMIDAE; AMPHIBOLURUS MURICATUS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 38749107607     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06519     Document Type: Article

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