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1 December 2006 The Influence of Incubation Temperature on Morphology, Locomotor Performance, and Cold Tolerance of Hatchling Chinese Three-Keeled Pond Turtles, Chinemys reevesii
Wei-Guo Du, Rong-Quan Zheng, Lin Shu
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Abstract

We incubated eggs of the Chinese three-keeled 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.

Wei-Guo Du, Rong-Quan Zheng, and Lin Shu "The Influence of Incubation Temperature on Morphology, Locomotor Performance, and Cold Tolerance of Hatchling Chinese Three-Keeled Pond Turtles, Chinemys reevesii," Chelonian Conservation and Biology 5(2), 294-299, (1 December 2006). https://doi.org/10.2744/1071-8443(2006)5[294:TIOITO]2.0.CO;2
Received: 28 January 2004; Accepted: 1 May 2005; Published: 1 December 2006
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