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Waggomeria, dentition 1:151
Waglerophis 16:149, 199, 231, 483, 520; 19:227
merremii 19:128, 154, 217; 20:656
Walking 13:2–6
trot 4:6
Walls transformation 2:84–85, 88, 92
Walterinnesia 8:26, 105, 107, 109–112, 142, 306, 335, 368, 444, 457, 499, 508, 510, 518; 10:204; 14:31; 16:150; 19:221
aegyptii 8:26, 98, 105, 107, 109–112, 142, 306, 335, 368, 444, 457, 499, 508, 510–511, 518; 19:152, 197; 20:625
ear 2:272
jaw muscles 4:483
Warburg cinstant volume respirometry 5:71, 74–75
Warm
-air chamber 5:24
-blooded 12:21, 23
-blooded prey 2:296
neurons 2:279, 286, 293–294
receptor 17:372
Warramba, premeiotic restitution 15:478
Water 3:1, 29; 5:35, 53, 58–59, 82, 96, 103, 196, 198, 322, 338–340, 358, 366, 370, 374, 377, 381–390, 394, 396, 400–401, 437, 447, 456, 465, 469, 472, 476, 489–490, 496; 13:74, 82, 84–88, 210–211, 213, 295–297
absorption 5:381–383, 388, 438; 8:668
albumin 16:527–529
availability 3:14–15, 53
balance 1:311; 5:9, 378, 388, 403–407; 12:252– 254, 325
balance of eggs and embryos (see Nests;
Water effects on embryos)
compensatory 16:570–571
exchange in nature 16:562–563
factors affecting 16:527–528, 531–532, 535, 554–556
fluctuating 16:570–573
liquid diffusion 16:554–556, 559
measuring hydration 16:556–562
mechanistic models 16:554–556, 564–565
metabolic water 16:554–556
parental care 16:301
plants 16:555, 559
principle of conservation of mass 16:554
psychrometers 16:559–562, 586
soil contact 16:532–535, 538–539, 564–565
soil types 16:557–558, 563–564
soil water potential 16:554–562
temporal variation 16:554–555, 559–561
thermal dependence 16:560–561, 565, 580
thermal interactions 16:565, 572–573, 577–580, 586
uptake 16:554, 562–563
vapor diffusion 16:554–556, 559–561
water content (gravimetric) vs. water
potential 16:557
water potential 16:554–563, 565, 586
barrier (see Cutaneous water barrier)
bath 5:75–76, 82
budgets 12:286–291, 495–497
conductivity of egg 12:287, 289
conductivity of substrate 12:287
conservation 5:145
containers 5:23
content of fetus 15:565
content of tissues 13:90–91
distilled 5:55, 422
diuresis 5:389
doubly labeled 13:239–240
effects on embryos
changing hydration 16:570–573
growth rates 16:567–569
limits of tolerance 16:565–566
metabolism 16:567–569
methodology 16:563–564
physiology 16:527–528, 531–532, 535
sexual differentiation 16:572–573, 586
size of hatchlings 16:567–569, 579–580
environments 5:318
exchange 5:69–70, 370
exchange in placenta 15:529, 651, 563, 565
excretion 5:447
flux 12:277, 304, 306, 326, 433–457, 483, 485, 487–495
intake 5:387; 12:286–287, 325, 353–362, 466, 488–489
loading 5:451, 457, 465, 471, 475, 496
loss 3:15; 5:249, 370, 375, 378, 380, 385, 387, 396, 399, 401, 405–406, 413, 451, 456–457, 470; 12:286, 288–291, 325–326, 362–386; 13:136–138
cutaneous 14:549, 551, 553–554, 559
by eggs 14:229–231, 362
metabolic 14:236, 360
metabolism 5:69
movement (see Water flux)
permability 5:69, 374
potential (see also Water balance) 12:287, 303–304
preformed 5:403
reabsorption 5:458
regulation 5:382
requirement 12:485–486
resistance of eggshell 12:287
storage 12:326, 349–350
surface 5:365
-to-energy ratios 12:494–495, 498
transport 5:472, 477
uptake 5:381
uptake by eggs 13:283–284
vapor 5:75, 77, 102–103, 370–372, 375–376, 378, 380; 12:303
vapor correction, transport coefficient 12:288, 290
vapor density of air 12:288
vapor density of animal tissue 12:288, 290
vapor density of expired air 12:291
vapor density of inspired air 12:291
vapor pressure 5:78, 104
yolk 16:527–528, 531–532
Wave amplitude 5:87
Waveform 5:84, 89, 92
educator 5:94
Waves of tooth replacement 1:133–134, 136–138, 150, 152, 167–168, 170–171, 173, 184, 186, 191
Wax 18:178
esters 18151, 169
Weapon autimimicry 16:208–209
Weather 12:145
Web of foot 4:49, 60, 77, 88, 90, 92–93, 95–96
Weber fraction 17:142, 161
Weber’s law 17:162
Wedensky inhibition 8:455, 466
Weed habitats 15:499, 513
Weigeltisaurus 15:338, 340
Weight
dependence 5:154
loss 5:103
loss during hibernation 13:82–83
regression 5:39, 144
regression coefficient (exponent) 5:147, 150, 154, 156, 300
-specific metabolic rate 5:39, 139–140, 146–147, 150–152, 154, 158, 169, 177
Werle substrate 8:165
West Africa 2:324
Wet-lung syndrome 19:348
Wetmorena 20:208
haetiana 20:302
Wetting agents 5:75–76
Wever’s facet 20:426–427; 21:485, 498
Wheel 16:51
White leghorns 14:7
Wind speed 12:281–282, 290–293
speed profile 12:318
Window (of eyelid) (see also Spectacle) 2:14, 49
Winkeltasche (see Choanal groove; Lateral
choanal fissure)
Winkler analysis 4:72
Winter
dormancy 5:168
kill 16:397
mortality 13:125–129
torpor (see Hibernation)
Wolffian
body (see also Mesonephros) 3:274
duct (see also Vas deferens) 6:1–3, 5–9, 12–20, 45, 49, 52, 64, 56, 106, 108, 110, 117, 120; 14:149, 309, 439, 441–442; 15:152–153, 171, 174–175, 186–187, 189–194, 196, 198, 201–202, 204–205, 241, 245, 260–262, 268, 277, 280; 19:40
effect of testosterone 15:249–253
ridge 14:159; 15:61
tubule (see Mesonephric tubule)
ultrastructure 15:175–176
vestiges 3:270
Wonambi 20:582, 588
barriei 20:596
naracoortensis 20:596
Work 11:306–309, 338; 19:17, 48–49, 61, 65, 76–77, 306, 309–310, 399
Worm-lizards 5:395
Wound
epithelium 14:563–564, 567, 583
healing 14:3, 459, 550, 563, 566–571; 15:304, 351–354, 384
hormone 14:570
rejection reaction 14:562, 564, 567, 570
Woutersophis novus 20:596
“Woven” bone 1:49, 55, 145
Woven-fibered bone 1:66
Wright’s stain 16:355
technique 3 94
Wrist 21:19–20, 40–41, 111, 113, 124, 126, 135, 244, 282–284, 289–290, 292, 294, 297, 303
Wulst 10:95, 314; 17:314, 331, 677
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