Beyond maternal effects in birds: Responses of the embryo to the environment

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-80

  Reed, Wendy L ^a   Clark, Mark E ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIRD; CHEMISTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EGG YOLK; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; OOCYTE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EGG YOLK; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; OVUM; PHOTOPERIOD; SEASONS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES;

EID: 79960140965     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icr032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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