The importance of perivitelline fluid convection to oxygen uptake of Pseudophryne bibronii eggs

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 299-305

  Mueller, Casey A ^a   Seymour, Roger S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FLUID; FROG; GAS EXCHANGE; OXYGEN; PRESSURE EFFECT; SURFACE AREA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; FROGS AND TOADS; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRESSURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CONVECTION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARTIAL PRESSURE;

AMPHIBIA; PSEUDOPHRYNE;

EID: 79955934161     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/659650     Document Type: Article

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