Does solitary incubation enhance egg water uptake and offspring quality in a lizard that produces single-egg clutches?

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Volumn 315 A, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 149-155

  Warner, Daniel A ^a   Chapman, Michelle N ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CLUTCH SIZE; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; LIZARD; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CLUTCH SIZE; EMBRYO LOSS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; LIZARDS; OVIPOSITION; OVUM; WATER;

ANOLIS SAGREI; SQUAMATA;

EID: 79952172308     PISSN: 19325223     EISSN: 19325231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.660     Document Type: Article

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