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

Previous investigations have assumed that embryos lack the capacity of physiological thermoregulation until they are large enough for their own metabolic heat production to influence nest temperatures. Contrary to intuition, reptile embryos may be capable of physiological thermoregulation. In our ex...

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Autores principales: Du, Wei-Guo, Tu, Ming-Chung, Radder, Rajkumar S., Shine, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3691125/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23826200
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067095