The influence of hydric environments during egg incubation on embryonic heart rates and offspring phenotypes in a scincid lizard (Lampropholis guichenoti)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 102-107

  Du, Wei Guo ^a,b   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Developmental plasticity; Egg incubation; Embryonic metabolism; Growth; Hatchling; Heart rate; Reptile; Water potential

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HATCHLING; HEART RATE; LAMPROPHOLIS GUICHENOTI; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; MOISTURE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY;

LAMPROPHOLIS GUICHENOTI; REPTILIA; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 47949096402     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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