Affects Of Temperature And .....
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Richard Shine, Thomas R. L. Madsen, Melanie J. Elphick, and Peter S. Harlow
authored the journal entry titled, “The Influence of Nest Temperatures and Maternal
Brooding on Hatchling Phenotypes in Water Pythons” and had it published in volume
78(6) of Ecology in 1997. The work deals with the Water Python (Liasis fuscus) of
Northern Australia and how temperature and the amount of maternal brooding results in
different phenotypes in hatchlings. In the experiment the authors measured body size,
shape, behaviour and performance of the young pythons. To understand the experiment’s
procedures and results, one must first understand some of the background behind it.
Phenotypic plasticity is the “modification of the phenotype by direct
environmental influences with no genetic underpinnings”, and is measured in the
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