External gills and adaptive embryo behavior facilitate synchronous development and hatching plasticity under respiratory constraint

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3627-3635

  Rogge, Jessica R ^a   Warkentin, Karen M ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo behavior; Gills; Hatching; Hypoxia; Phenotypic plasticity; Respiration

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; EGG; FROGS AND TOADS; GILL; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; VIDEORECORDING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; ANURA; EGGS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GILLS; OXYGEN; POSTURE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; VIDEO RECORDING;

HYLA;

EID: 55949115241     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.020958     Document Type: Article

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