The lesser known challenge of climate change: Thermal variance and sex-reversal in vertebrates with temperature-dependent sex determination

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Neuwald, Jennifer L ^a   Valenzuela, Nicole ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; EMBRYO MORTALITY; FEMALE; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INCUBATION TIME; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TURTLE; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE;

CHRYSEMYS; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; MALE; OVUM; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TURTLES;

EID: 79952914225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018117     Document Type: Article

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