Environmentally cued hatching in reptiles

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-61

  Doody, J S ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ASSOCIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPTILE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CUES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; OVUM; REPTILES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMPHISBAENIA; ANIMALIA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SPHENODON PUNCTATUS; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES; VARANUS;

EID: 79960139930     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icr043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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