Thermal acclimation of heart rates in reptilian embryos.

In many reptiles, the thermal regimes experienced by eggs in natural nests vary as a function of ambient weather and location, and this variation has important impacts on patterns of embryonic development. Recent advances in non-invasive measurement of embryonic heart rates allow us to answer a long...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wei-Guo Du, Hua Ye, Bo Zhao, Daniel A Warner, Richard Shine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3001871?pdf=render