Behavioral thermoregulation by turtle embryos

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 9513-9515

  Du, Wei Guo ^a,b   Zhao, Bo ^b   Chen, Ye ^b   Shine, Richard ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY TEMPERATURE; EGG; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HATCHING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOREGULATION; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; OVUM; TEMPERATURE; TURTLES;

ANIMALIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 79959365245     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102965108     Document Type: Article

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