Patterns of interspecific variation in the heart rates of embryonic reptiles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Du, Wei Guo ^a,b,c   Ye, Hua ^c   Zhao, Bo ^c   Pizzatto, Ligia ^b   Ji, Xiang ^d   Shine, Richard ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT BODY MASS; ADULTHOOD; ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EGG SIZE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HATCHING; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE; INCUBATION TIME; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; SNAKE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TURTLE; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CLUTCH SIZE; OOCYTE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CLUTCH SIZE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HEART RATE; ORGAN SIZE; OVUM; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPTILES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 83255164057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029027     Document Type: Article

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