The role of python eggshell permeability dynamics in a respiration- hydration trade-off

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 576-586

  Stahlschmidt, Zachary R ^a   Heulin, Benoit ^b   DeNardo, Dale F ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGGSHELL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAS EXCHANGE; HYDRATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; HYPOXIA; INCUBATION; METABOLISM; OXYGEN; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL CARE; PERMEABILITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESPIRATION; SNAKE; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EGG SHELL; FEMALE; NESTING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERMEABILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SNAKE; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMOREGULATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; BOIDAE;

ANIMALS; BOIDAE; EGG SHELL; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERMEABILITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE;

ANTARESIA CHILDRENI; PYTHONIDAE;

EID: 77955708134     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652425     Document Type: Article

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