The development of the oxygen permeabili
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Lomholt, Jens Peter
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Article
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1976
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The 02-permeability of the avian egg shell and shell membranes is initially low (approximately equal to 0.1-10(-6) ml O2 STP-sec-1cm-2-mmHg-1) during incubation but increases about 10-fold after the first week. This increase correlates with a decline in water content of the membranes. A major increa