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Annexe III<br />

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Water potential partly controls water exchanges between the eggs and the nesting<br />

environment within the nest and may be crucial in embryonic <strong>de</strong>velopment (Fe<strong>de</strong>r, Statel &<br />

Gibbs, 1982; Packard, 1991a). During incubation, eggs gain or loss water in association with<br />

available moisture in substrate; substrate moisture affects thereby the hydric environment<br />

insi<strong>de</strong> the egg (Cagle et al., 1993). Embryos need sufficient water to <strong>de</strong>velop during<br />

incubation period (Packard, 1999a), the amount of water absorbed by eggs during incubation<br />

playing a key role in reserve production among others. It may thus <strong>de</strong>cisively influence<br />

hatching success and life-history traits of hatchling (Gutzke et al., 1987; Janzen, Ast &<br />

Paukstis, 1995; Finkler, 1999). Others criterion might be crucial in water exchange between<br />

eggs and incubation substrate during incubation such as egg size, correlated to the surface<br />

area of the egg that may be in contact with substrate, physical structure of soil and the<br />

structure of the eggshell that controlled the porosity and its associated diffusion coefficient<br />

(Tracy & Snell, 1985; Gutzke et al., 1987; Marco, Diaz-Paniagua & Hidalgo-Vila, 2004). In<br />

turtles, different types of eggshell structure co-exist (Iverson & Ewert, 1991): (i) flexibleshelled<br />

eggs (e.g. in painted turtles) with a lightly calcified outer layer, that allows eggs to<br />

swell or shrink relatively easily (Tracy, 1980; Fe<strong>de</strong>r et al., 1982; Ackerman et al., 1985), and<br />

(ii) rigid-shelled eggs (e.g. in softshell turtles) with a heavily calcified outer layer, that<br />

relatively may hamper egg swelling and shrinking as much as flexible-shelled eggs (Iverson<br />

et al., 1991; Packard, 1991a, 1999a).<br />

Several authors studied the influence of substrate water potential on eggs, embryos and<br />

hatchlings, and obtained controversial results. To date, no significant influence of hydric<br />

environment on sex phenotype was clearly <strong>de</strong>monstrated (Gutzke & Paukstis, 1983; Paukstis,<br />

Gutzke & Packard, 1984 vs. Ji, 1999 #14; Packard, Packard & Benigan, 1991b). Some authors<br />

found significant effects of water availability in incubation substrate on embryo's growth rate<br />

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