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Introduction: Temperature And Timing In Developmental Biology

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Animal Species for Developmental Studies

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Strictly ordered development and precisely coordinated timing of the appearance of new structures and functions is characteristic of animal development, but the mechanisms underlying such orderliness remain unclear [43, 51]. Investigations of temporal patterns in development have been limited until recently by the fact that the duration of any developmental period is a variable depending on a species-specific rate of development and, in poikilothermic animals, also on external conditions (temperature in particular), as well as on species-specific limits of the range of optimal temperatures which correspond to those of spawning.

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Dettlaff, T.A. (1991). Introduction: Temperature And Timing In Developmental Biology. In: Dettlaff, T.A., Vassetzky, S.G. (eds) Animal Species for Developmental Studies. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3654-3_1

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