Determinants of incubation period: Do reptilian embryos hatch after a fixed total number of heart beats?

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 212, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1302-1306

  Du, Wei Guo ^a,b   Radder, Rajkumar S ^a   Sun, Bo ^b   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Embryonic development; Heart rate; Metabolic rate; Reptile; Thermal dependence; Thermal time

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEART; HEART RATE; LIZARD; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HEART; HEART RATE; LIZARDS; OVIPOSITION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TURTLES;

AVES; BASSIANA DUPERREYI; PELODISCUS SINENSIS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; TAKYDROMUS SEPTENTRIONALIS; TESTUDINES;

EID: 66149149864     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.027425     Document Type: Article

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