Does incubation temperature fluctuation influence hatchling phenotypes in reptiles? A test using parthenogenetic geckos

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 597-607

  Andrewartha, Sarah J ^a   Mitchell, Nicola J ^a,b   Frappell, Peter B ^a,c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BODY SIZE; CLONAL ORGANISM; CLONE; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; INCUBATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATERNAL EFFECT; NESTLING; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPTILE; SELECTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; LIZARDS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; TEMPERATURE;

GEKKONIDAE; HETERONOTIA BINOEI; REPTILIA;

EID: 77955676781     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652245     Document Type: Article

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