Residual yolk energetics and postnatal shell growth in Smooth Softshell Turtles, Apalone mutica

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-46

  Van Dyke, James U ^a   Plummer, Michael V ^b   Beaupre, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b HARDING UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apalone mutica; Energetics; Growth; Hydration; Residual Yolk; Respirometry; Yolkectomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APALONE MUTICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG YOLK; ENERGY TRANSFER; HATCHLING; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL GROWTH; TURTLE; WATER TRANSPORT;

APALONE MUTICA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 78649636798     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.08.026     Document Type: Article

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