Research
Development is ordered
Early embryos begin with broadly shared vertebrate structures before tissues and organs become increasingly specialised. In squamate reptiles, the timing of developmental events can differ between taxa, so a sequence from another lizard cannot automatically be applied day-for-day to Pogona vitticeps.
Temperature influences developmental rate, but faster development is not automatically better. Incubation conditions can also affect survival and biological development.
Research
Sex development is unusually interesting
Central Bearded Dragons have ZZ/ZW sex chromosomes, with females normally the heterogametic sex. Research has also shown that high incubation temperatures can cause some genetically male ZZ embryos to develop as phenotypic females.
This discovery makes the species important in research on the interaction between genes and temperature. It should not be used as a reason to deliberately expose captive eggs to extreme temperatures.