Population sex ratios under differing local climates in a reptile with environmental sex determination

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 977-989

  Refsnider, Jeanine M ^a,b   Milne Zelman, Carrie ^c   Warner, Daniel A ^d   Janzen, Fredric J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AURORA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Chrysemys picta; Geographic variation; Incubation; Nest site choice; Painted turtle; Temperature dependent sex determination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NEST SITE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPTILE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; TURTLE;

CHRYSEMYS; CHRYSEMYS PICTA; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84905754401     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-014-9710-2     Document Type: Article

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