Turtle embryos move to optimal thermal environments within the egg

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Zhao, Bo ^a,b   Li, Teng ^a   Shine, Richard ^c   Du, Wei Guo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioural thermoregulation; Ectotherm; Embryo; Oviparity

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ECTOTHERMY; EGG; EMBRYO; HEAT SOURCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OVIPARITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TURTLE;

EMYDIDAE; MAUREMYS REEVESII; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TRIONYCHIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CHEMISTRY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYDRODYNAMICS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION; TURTLE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOURAL THERMOREGULATION; ECTOTHERM; EMBRYO; OVIPARITY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; OVUM; TEMPERATURE; TURTLES;

BEHAVIOURAL THERMOREGULATION; ECTOTHERM; EMBRYO; OVIPARITY;

EID: 84880840896     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0337     Document Type: Article

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