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Experiments on developing eggs of European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) demonstrated S-shaped changes in the rate of oxygen consumption and body weight during embryonic development. The rate of oxygen consumption and weight progressively increased within 70 days after hatching. During embryogenesis, the mass-specific rate of oxygen consumption decreased. After hatching, it increased but then decreased to a certain level, which remained constant to the end of the studied period. We observed unidirectional changes in the mass-specific rate of oxygen consumption and specific weight gain during embryonic development and this pattern was maintained after hatching. The coefficients of the allometric relationship between oxygen consumption and body weight were a = 0.33 and k = 0.52 during embryonic development and a = 0.17 and k = 0.89 during postembryonic development.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, No. 2, 2005, pp. 214–220.
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Vladimirova, I.G., Alekseeva, T.A. & Nechaeva, M.V. Growth and oxygen consumption in embryonic and early postembryonic development of European pond turtle Emys orbicularis (Reptilia: Emydidae). Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 32, 172–178 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10525-005-0026-1
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