Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in VertebratesNicole Valenzuela, Valentine A. Lance Edited by the world's foremost authorities on the subject, with essays by leading scholars in the field, this work shows how the sex of reptiles and many fish is determined not by the chromosomes they inherit but by the temperature at which incubation takes place. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Thermal Effects Ecology and Interactions | 71 |
Phenotypic Effects of Incubation Temperature in Reptiles | 90 |
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