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Frontiers in Zoology BioMed Central Research Open Access Support for a rare pattern of temperature-dependent sex determination in archaic reptiles: evidence from two species of tuatara (Sphenodon) 1,3 1 2 1 Nicola J Mitchell* , Nicola J Nelson , Alison Cree , Shirley Pledger , 1 1 Susan N Keall and Charles H Daugherty Address: 1School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand, 2Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand and 3School of Animal Biology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia Email: Nicola J Mitchell* - njm@.au; Nicola J Nelson - nicola.nelson@vuw.ac.nz; Alison Cree - alison.cree@stonebow.otago.ac.nz; Shirley Pledger - shirley.pledger@vuw.ac.nz; Susan N Keall - susan.keall@vuw.ac.nz; Charles H Daugherty - charles.daugherty@vuw.ac.nz * Corresponding author Published: 29 June 2006 Received: 21 March 2006 Accepted: 29 June 2006 Frontiers in Zoology 2006, 3:9 doi:10.1186/1742-9994-3-9 This article is available from: /content/3/1/9 © 2006 Mitchell et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Ab