Inheritance of nesting behaviour across natural environmental variation in a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1685, 2010, Pages 1219-1226

  McGaugh, Suzanne E ^a   Schwanz, Lisa E ^b   Bowden, Rachel M ^a,c   Gonzalez, Julie E ^a,d   Janzen, Fredric J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Des Moines Area Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Chrysemys; Climate change; G E; Heritability; Phenology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PARENTAL CARE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TURTLE;

ANIMALIA; CHRYSEMYS; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 77951433761     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1883     Document Type: Article

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