Living at extremes: Development at the edges of viable temperature under constant and fluctuating conditions

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 105-112

  Les, Heather L ^a   Paitz, Ryan T ^a   Bowden, Rachel M ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; EGG; EMBRYO; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INCUBATION; PHENOTYPE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TURTLE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOLOGY; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE; TURTLE; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; ILLINOIS; OVUM; PHENOTYPE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TURTLES;

CHRYSEMYS; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS;

EID: 62549132709     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/590263     Document Type: Article

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