A comprehensive database of thermal developmental plasticity in reptiles.

ABSTRACT: How temperature influences development has direct relevance to ascertaining the impact of climate change on natural populations. Reptiles have served as empirical models for understanding how the environment experienced by embryos can influence phenotypic variation, including sex ratio, phenology and survival. Such an understanding has important implications for basic eco-evolutionary theory and conservation efforts worldwide. While there is a burgeoning empirical literature of experimental manipulations of embryonic thermal environments, addressing widespread patterns at a comparative level has been hampered by the lack of accessible data in a format that is amendable to updates as new studies emerge. Here, we describe a database with nearly 10, 000 phenotypic estimates from 155 species o

SUBMITTER: Noble DWA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6049033 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature