Maternal provision and embryonic uptake of calcium in an oviparous and a placentotrophic viviparous Australian lizard (Lacertilia: Scincidae)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 202-208

  Stewart, James R ^a   Ecay, Tom W ^b   Garland, Courtney P ^a   Fregoso, Santiago P ^a   Price, Elizabeth K ^a   Herbert, Jacquie F ^c   Thompson, Michael B ^c  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^c UNSW   (Australia)

Author keywords

Calcium; Lecithotrophy; Placentation; Placentotrophy; Pseudemoia; Saproscincus

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM MOBILIZATION; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EGG SHELL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; LIZARD; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OVIDUCT; PLACENTA; REPRODUCTION; UTERUS; VITELLOGENESIS; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; OVIPARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIVIPARITY;

LACERTILIA; PSEUDEMOIA; PSEUDEMOIA PAGENSTECHERI; SAPROSCINCUS; SAPROSCINCUS MUSTELINUS; SCINCIDAE; SQUAMATA; ZOOTOCA VIVIPARA;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; FEMALE; LIZARDS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; OVIPARITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIVIPARITY, NONMAMMALIAN;

EID: 64849099585     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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