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Ova and
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| I am completing research that concerns differences in egg and neonate size and quality among winter and summer breeding events in the Southern leopard frog (Rana spenocephala). In short, I have found that females which breed in summer produce smaller eggs and tadpoles than females which breed in winter. Also, eggs and tadpoles from summer breeding events have more non-polar lipids (or fat) - relative to egg/body size - as compared with eggs and tadpoles from winter breeding events, which means the smaller summer eggs/young tadpoles have proportionally more developmental fuel than the larger winter eggs/tadpoles. |