[Changes in erythrocyte count of newts during periods of sexual activity].
Newts (Triturus cristatus carnifex) raised for the first six months of the year at temperatures not less than 10 degrees C did not undergo hibernation with a drop in the number of their erythrocytes. On the contrary, during their wintertime period of sexual activity and parallel development of secondary sex characters, the red blood cells reached a much higher concentration than was previously assumed to be normal.
D000818:Animals; D004906:Erythrocyte Count; D005260:Female; D006605:Hibernation; D008297:Male; D012455:Salamandridae / Q000502:physiology*; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal
Variazioni nelle conte degli eritrociti del tritone in rapporto al periodo dell'attivita' sessuale.