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Embryos in the Fast Lane: High-Temperature Heart Rates of Turtles Decline After Hatching

In ectotherms such as turtles, the relationship between cardiovascular function and temperature may be subject to different selective pressures in different life-history stages. Because embryos benefit by developing as rapidly as possible, and can “afford” to expend energy to do so (because they hav...

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Autores principales: Du, Wei-Guo, Zhao, Bo, Shine, Richard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2835746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20224773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009557

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