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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.
Sandra Treffkorn +2 more
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Shedding light on the ‘dark side’ of phylogenetic comparative methods [PDF]
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
Beaulieu +64 more
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Turtle body size and limb size scale nearly isometrically along the group's evolution, although major deviations are only seen in highly specialized ecological or morphological groups. The evolution of the shell constrained turtle body proportions, as they show lower rates of variance accumulation in these allometries than other more diverse and ...
Guilherme Hermanson, Serjoscha W. Evers
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A review of Marty Crump\u27s book on the folklore surrounding reptiles and amphibians. Crump\u27s book is a collection of tales and myths both ancient and contemporary, and a fascinating analysis of how humans perceive and sometimes revere snakes, frogs ...
Etheridge, Kay
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Influence of incubation temperature on hatchling phenotype in reptiles [PDF]
Incubation temperature influences hatchling phenotypes such as sex, size, shape, color, behavior, and locomotor performance in many reptiles, and there is growing concern that global warming might adversely affect reptile populations by altering ...
Booth, David T.
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Observations on the Nidamental Glands of Hydrolagus colliei, Raja rhina and Platyrhinoidis triseriatusi [PDF]
A study of the reproductive system and the nature of the reproduction of the elasmobranchs was started by me in 1940, with the idea of finding out whether or not there is any correlation between the phylogeny and the reproductive structures and habits.
Raghu Prasad, R
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On the oviparity of Peripatus leuckartii
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Observations on the developmental stages of the smooth dogfish, Eridacnis radcliffei Smith from Gulf of Mannar. [PDF]
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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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]
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 ...
Beck, Lother +5 more
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Snake reproduction – ovipary, vivipary and ovovivipary [PDF]
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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