Climate warming and environmental sex determination in tuatara: The last of the Sphenodontians?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1648, 2008, Pages 2181-2183

  Huey, Raymond B ^a   Janzen, Fredric J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; EGG LAYING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENOTYPE; HATCHING; NESTING; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; WARMING;

SPHENODON PUNCTATUS; SPHENODONTIA;

EID: 49749119529     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0555     Document Type: Note

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