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The influence of temperature on mortality and development rate of common toad Bufo bufo was investigated in the laboratory conditions. It was shown that the rate of embryogenesis at +19°C increased almost 1.4 times as compared with the development of a temperature of +15°C. The temperature affects the resulting embryo mortality at the time of hatching primarily in clutches with low survival.
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Original Russian Text © E.V. Dmitrieva, 2014, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Biologiya, 2014, No. 1, pp. 31–34.
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Dmitrieva, E.V. Experimental study of the temperature effect on survival and development rates in the early ontogenesis of common toad (Bufo bufo). Moscow Univ. Biol.Sci. Bull. 69, 71–73 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0096392514020023
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