Reduced oxygen diffusion across the shell of Gray gull (Larus modestus) eggs
Gray gulls, Larus modestus, nest 1500 m above sea level in northern Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the driest in the world. Their eggshell gas permeability, one third of that found in other Larus species, is an adaptation that reduces water loss, but at the expense of oxygen diffusion into the...
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Sociedad de Biología de Chile
2000
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