Can Reptile Embryos Influence Their Own Rates of Heating and Cooling?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Du, Wei Guo ^a,b   Tu, Ming Chung ^a,c   Radder, Rajkumar S ^a   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COOLING; EGG SIZE; ELAPHE TAENIURA; EMBRYO; HEART RATE; HEATING; HYSTERESIS; MORELIA SPILOTA; NONHUMAN; PYTHON MOLURUS; REPTILE; SNAKE; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BOIDAE; COLD TEMPERATURE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HEART RATE; HEATING; OVUM; SNAKES;

REPTILIA;

EID: 84879469686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067095     Document Type: Article

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