Pivotal temperature and sexual dimorphism of Podocnemis expansa hatchlings (Testudines: Podocnemididae) from Bananal Island, Brazil
A common problem when trying to identify the sex of hatchling turtles is that juveniles are not obviously externally dimorphic and current techniques to identify sex are often invasive. In this paper, 300 eggs of Podocnemis expansa from Bananal Island, state of Tocantins (Brazil), were incubated at...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2009-09-01
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Series: | Zoologia (Curitiba) |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702009000300016 |