Early environments can profoundly influence an organism in ways that persist over its life. In
reptiles, early thermal environments (nest temperatures) can impact offspring phenotype and …

Adaptations of post‐hatching animals have attracted far more study than have embryonic
responses to environmental challenges, but recent research suggests that we have …

This book is comprised of 12 chapters covering topics in reptilian incubation. The chapters
are written by several authors. This book is aimed at serving as a valuable reference text for …

Climatic conditions during embryonic development can exert profound and long‐term effects
on many types of organisms, but most previous research on this topic has focussed on …

Developmental stressors are increasingly recognised for their pervasive influence on the
ecology and evolution of animals. In particular, many studies have focused on how …

Using literature data on reciprocal crosses, I estimated the influence of maternal effects on
morphological and behavioral traits and compared these effects between mammals, birds …

Climate change will continue to increase mean global temperatures with daily minima
increasing more than daily maxima temperatures. Altered rainfall patterns due to climate …

Do reproducing female reptiles adaptively manipulate phenotypic traits of their offspring by
selecting appropriate nest sites? Evidence to support this hypothesis is indirect, mostly …

Age and size at maturity are pivotal life-history traits through their effects on other key traits,
such as annual and lifetime fecundity. We used skeletochronology to investigate the …

Most reptiles are oviparous (egg-laying), but viviparity (live-bearing) has evolved about 100
times in lizards and snakes. Geographic biases in the distribution of viviparous species …