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Facultative cardiac responses to regional hypoxia in lizard embryos.
Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology - 1 Aug 2010
Du Wei-Guo, Thompson Michael B, Shine Richard
Abstract excerpt
In natural nests, the eggs of squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) sometimes experience unpredictable shifts in oxygen availability as a function of nest flooding, or the details of egg location within a nest. We experimentally investigated whether embryos can facultatively adjust cardiac function to cope with such challenges by imposing regional hypoxia on developing eggs of the scincid lizard Bassiana...
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