Unexpected resilience of species with temperaturedependent sex determination at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 295-298

  Silber, Sherman ^a   Geisler, Jonathan H ^b   Bolortsetseg, Minjin ^c  

^a ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Institute for the Study of Mongolian Dinosaurs   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Extinction; Temperature dependent sex determination

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EXTINCTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PALEOGENE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; DINOSAURIA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 79954497311     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0882     Document Type: Article

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