Oxygen in egg masses: interactive effects of temperature, age, and egg-mass morphology on oxygen supply to embryos
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Oxygen in egg masses: interactive effects of temperature, age, and egg-mass morphology on oxygen supply to embryos.
Embryos of many marine invertebrates are encased in gelatinous masses for part or all of development. Because gel and intervening embryos retard oxygen flux, such a life-history mode profoundly affects partial pressures of metabolic gases surrounding embryos. However, little is known about relationships between egg-mass structure and the opportunities and constraints imposed on structure by met...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02702