Energetic cost of behavioral thermoregulation in turtle embryos
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Bo Zhao,a Ping Ding,a and Wen Zhangb aKey Laboratory of Conservation Biology For Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, Zhejiang, China and bHangzhou Key Laboratory for Animal Evolution and Adaptation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310036, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China
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"Behavioral Thermoregulation by Turtle Embryos" (2011), by Wei-Guo Du, Bo Zhao, Ye Chen, and Richard Shine
In ?Behavioral Thermoregulation by Turtle Embryos,? published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [4] in April, 2011, Wei-Guo Du, Bo Zhao, Ye Chen, and Richard Shine report that turtle embryos can move towards warmer temperatures within the egg [5] when presented with a small, 0.8 degrees Celsius gradient. This behavioral thermoregulation may benefit the embryo?s fitness by accel...
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