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Behavioral thermoregulation by turtle embryos.


ABSTRACT: Mobile ectothermic animals can control their body temperatures by selecting specific thermal conditions in the environment, but embryos--trapped within an immobile egg and lacking locomotor structures--have been assumed to lack that ability. Falsifying that assumption, our experimental studies show that even early stage turtle embryos move within the egg to exploit small-scale spatial thermal heterogeneity. Behavioral thermoregulation is not restricted to posthatching life and instead may be an important tactic in every life-history stage.

SUBMITTER: Du WG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3111322 | biostudies-other | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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