Field-measured heritability of the threshold for sex determination in a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-90

  McGaugh, Suzanne E ^a,b   Bowden, Rachel M ^a,c   Kuo, Chin Horng ^a,d   Janzen, Fredric J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Animal model; Chrysemys picta; Quantitative genetics; Reptiles; Temperature dependent sex determination

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CHRYSEMYS; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 79955682342     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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