Biology of the Reptilia: Index W

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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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