Frontiers in Zoology, 2019 Background Onychophorans, commonly known as velvet worms, display a remarkable diversity of reproductive strategies including oviparity, and placentotrophic, lecithotrophic, matrotrophic or combined lecithotrophic/matrotrophic viviparity.
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Observations on the developmental stages of the smooth dogfish, Eridacnis radcliffei Smith from Gulf of Mannar. [PDF]
, 1974 The structure of mature reproductive organs of fifteien adult females of Eridacn'.s radcliffei. ranging in total length from 150 to 218 mm collected from the trawl catches off Mandapam in Gulf of Mannar during February, 1972 at a depth ranging frori ...
Appukuttan, K K, Nair, R V
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Shedding light on the ‘dark side’ of phylogenetic comparative methods [PDF]
, 2016 ORCID: 0000-0003-4919-8655© 2016 The Authors. Methods in Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which
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Courtship entanglements: a first report of mating behavior and sexual dichromatism in the Southeast Asian keel-bellied whipsnake, Dryophiops rubescens [PDF]
, 2012 We describe the first observations of courtship behavior and sexual dichromatism in the keel-bellied whipsnake, Dryophiops rubescens, from an encounter near Sandakan, eastern Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.
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The chloride channel cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) controls cellular quiescence by hyperpolarizing the cell membrane during diapause in the crustacean Artemia [PDF]
, 2019 Cellular quiescence, a reversible state in which growth, proliferation, and other cellular activities are arrested, is important for self-renewal, differentiation, development, regeneration, and stress resistance.
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Studies on the seasonality of Culiseta inornata in Kern County, California. [PDF]
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Viviparity Stimulates Diversification in an Order of Fish
, 2016 International audienceSpecies richness is distributed unevenly across the tree of life and this may be influenced by the evolution of novel phenotypes that promote diversification.
Helmstetter, AJ +5 more
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First captive breeding of a night skink (Scincidae: Eremiascincus) from Timor-Leste, Lesser Sunda Islands, with remarks on the reproductive biology of the genus [PDF]
, 2016 We report two instances of captive breeding in a species of Timorese night skink (genus Eremiascincus Greer, 1979) in October and December 2012. Four and three neonates, respectively, with total lengths of ca 40 mm each, were discovered during routine ...
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Snake reproduction – ovipary, vivipary and ovovivipary [PDF]
, 2019 Zmije su vrlo raznolika i široko rasprostranjena skupina životinja. Nastanjuju raznolika staništa, što zahtjeva specifične prilagodbe. Kao i za niz drugih aktivnosti, morale su razviti prilagodbe za razmnožavanje.
Prpić, Paula
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A predictive framework and review of the ecological impacts of exotic plant invasions on reptiles and amphibians [PDF]
, 2011 The invasive spread of exotic plants in native vegetation can pose serious threats to native faunal assemblages. This is of particular concern for reptiles and amphibians because they form a significant component of the world's vertebrate fauna, play a ...
Martin, LJ, Murray, BR
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