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The effect of thermal variance on the phenotype of marine turtle offspring.
Physiological and biochemical zoology : PBZ - 1 Jan 2000
Horne C R, Fuller W J, Godley B J, Rhodes K A, Snape R, Stokes K L, Broderick A C
Abstract excerpt
Temperature can have a profound effect on the phenotype of reptilian offspring, yet the bulk of current research considers the effects of constant incubation temperatures on offspring morphology, with few studies examining the natural thermal variance that occurs in the wild. Over two consecutive nesting seasons, we placed temperature data loggers in 57 naturally incubating clutches of loggerhead sea turtles...
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