The sooner the better: Reproductive phenology drives ontogenetic trajectories in a temperate squamate (Podarcis muralis)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 384-395

  Le Henanff, Maxime ^a,b   Meylan, Sandrine ^c   Lourdais, Olivier ^a,d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort variation; Long term effects; Phenotypic plasticity; Timing of hatching; Wall lizard

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; ECTOTHERMY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HATCHING DATE; INCUBATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIZARD; ONTOGENY; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

PODARCIS; PODARCIS MURALIS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84872514688     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.02005.x     Document Type: Article

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