Discontinuous gas exchange exhibition is a heritable trait in speckled cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1588-1597

  Schimpf, N G ^a   Matthews, P G D ^a   White, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chthonic; Discontinuous gas exchange cycles; Heritability; Hygric; Neural hypothesis; Oxidative; Repeatability

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ADAPTATION; COCKROACH; FITNESS; GAS EXCHANGE; HERITABILITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; OXIDATION; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHTHONIC; COCKROACH; DISCONTINUOUS GAS-EXCHANGE CYCLES; FEMALE; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; HYGRIC; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NEURAL HYPOTHESIS; OXIDATIVE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPEATABILITY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION;

CHTHONIC; DISCONTINUOUS GAS-EXCHANGE CYCLES; HERITABILITY; HYGRIC; NEURAL HYPOTHESIS; OXIDATIVE; REPEATABILITY;

ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COCKROACHES; FEMALE; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPE; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES;

BLATTARIA; HEXAPODA; NAUPHOETA CINEREA;

EID: 84880698491     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12093     Document Type: Article

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