Potentially adaptive effects of maternal nutrition during gestation on offspring phenotype of a viviparous reptile.

Abstract excerpt

Viviparous reptiles have been used as model species for many studies that seek to explain the evolution of viviparity. The vast majority of such studies have focused on the advantage viviparity provides with regards to maternal control of embryonic developmental temperature. However, viviparity may also allow increased control of nutrient transfer, such that mothers adaptively manipulate offspring phenotype...

Topics

• Adaptation, Physiological
• Animal Feed
• Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
• Animals
• Animals, Newborn
• Female
• Lizards
• Phenotype
• Viviparity, Nonmammalian