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Incubation temperature and phenotypic traits of Sceloporus undulatus: implications for the northern limits of distribution.
Oecologia - 1 Mar 2007
Parker Scott L, Andrews Robin M
Abstract excerpt
Cold environmental temperature is detrimental to reproduction by oviparous squamate reptiles by prolonging incubation period, negatively affecting embryonic developmental processes, and by killing embryos in eggs directly. Because low soil temperature may prevent successful development of embryos in eggs in nests, the geographic distributions of oviparous species may be influenced by the thermal requirements of...
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