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- Title
The Influence of Incubation Temperature on Morphology, Locomotor Performance, and Cold Tolerance of Hatchling Chinese Three-Keeled Pond Turtles, Chinemys reevesii.
- Authors
Wei-Guo Du; Rong-Quan Zheng; Lin Shu
- Abstract
We incubated eggs of the Chinese threekeeled pond turtle (Chinemys reevesii) at 4 constant temperatures to assess the influence of these thermal regimes on incubation length, hatching success, and phenotypic traits of hatchlings. Eggs incubated at 24° and 27°C produced larger hatchlings in body mass, carapace size, and limb length than did those from 30° and 33°C. Hatchlings from 27° and 30°C crawled and swam faster than did their counterparts from 24° and 33°C. The critical thermal minima of hatchlings incubated at 30° and 33°C were higher than those of hatchlings from 24° and 27°C.
- Subjects
WESTERN pond turtle; CHELONIA (Genus); PACIFIC green turtle; ANIMAL courtship; ANIMAL sexual behavior; ENVIRONMENTAL sciences; CONSERVATION of natural resources; VOLUNTEER workers in conservation of natural resources; NATURAL resources; CLEMMYS
- Publication
Chelonian Conservation & Biology, 2006, Vol 5, Issue 2, p294
- ISSN
1071-8443
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2744/1071-8443(2006)5[294:TIOITO]2.0.CO;2