Determinants of incubation period: do reptilian embryos hatch after a fixed total number of heart beats?

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Published in J Exp Biol on May 01, 2009

Authors

Wei-Guo Du1, Rajkumar S Radder, Bo Sun, Richard Shine

Author Affiliations

1: School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006 Australia. dwghz@126.com

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