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Radiographic anatomy aspects and gastrointestinal transit time in Podocnemis unifilis troschel, 1848 (Testudines, Podocnemididae). = Aspectos anátomo-radiográficos e tempo de trânsito gastrintestinal em Podocnemis unifilis troschel, 1848 (Testudines, Podocnemididae)

Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2010
The present study analyzed the radiographic anatomy and determined thegastrointestinal transit time of Podocnemis unifilis. We used ten animals belonging to LAPAS from the Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais State, Brazil.
Fernando Moraes Machado Brito, Lucélia Gonçalves Vieira, Cirilo Antônio Paula Lima, Carlos Gomes Ferreira, José Guilherme Souza Pinto, André Luiz Quagliatto Santos   +5 more
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Characterization of innate immune activity in Phrynops geoffroanus (Testudines: Chelidae)

Zoologia (Curitiba), 2009
The innate immune activity of the freshwater turtle Phrynops geoffroanus (Schweigger, 1812) was investigated, using a sheep-red-blood cell hemolysis assay.
Bruno O. Ferronato, Mark E. Merchant, Thiago S. Marques, Luciano M. Verdade   +3 more
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The fossil chelonians of Greece [PDF]

, 2021
Η παρούσα διατριβή διαπραγματεύεται την περιγραφή των απολιθωμένων χελωνών της Ελλάδας, εστιάζοντας στη λεπτομερή περιγραφή χιλιάδων δειγμάτων που προέρχονται από περισσότερες από 40 θέσεις, με πολλά νέα δείγματα αλλά και σχεδόν όλα που είχαν προηγουμένως δημοσιευτεί.
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Wild chelonians as pets in Brazil: biological profiles and social drivers [PDF]

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Brazil harbors the world’s richest biodiversity, making its native fauna a target for wildlife trafficking. This study aims to characterize the profile of chelonian species admitted to two Wildlife Screening Centers – CETAS in southeastern Brazil ...
PRISCILA S. GOMES, SABINE B. ROCHA, CARLOS EDUARDO V. GROU, FABRÍCIO H. ODA, MARCOS VINICIUS RODRIGUES   +4 more
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A Genomic Approach to Unravel Host-Pathogen Interaction in Chelonians: The Example of Testudinid Herpesvirus 3. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
We report the first de novo sequence assembly and analysis of the genome of Testudinid herpesvirus 3 (TeHV3), one of the most pathogenic chelonian herpesviruses.
Francesco C Origgi, Marco Tecilla, Paola Pilo, Fabio Aloisio, Patricia Otten, Lisandra Aguilar-Bultet, Ursula Sattler, Paola Roccabianca, Carlos H Romero, David C Bloom, Elliott R Jacobson   +10 more
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A new endemic karst-associated species of lance-headed pit viper (Squamata, Viperidae, Protobothrops) from Laos [PDF]

Herpetozoa
We describe a new species of lance-headed pit viper from north-western Laos, based on morphological and molecular (6092 bp from cyt b, ND4, COI, 12S rRNA and 16S rRNA mitochondrial DNA genes and c-mos and RAG1 nuclear DNA genes) lines of evidence ...
Rupert J. Grassby-Lewis, Peter Brakels, Nathanaël Maury, Saly Sitthivong, David Frohlich, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Sabira S. Idiiatullina, Tan Van Nguyen, Nikolay A. Poyarkov   +8 more
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Transverse Bone of a Chelonian [PDF]

Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1888
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Ontogenetic Habitat Shifts of Mauremys leprosa in Lotic and Lentic Habitats of the Sierra Morena Natural Park (Seville)

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The Mediterranean pond turtle (Mauremys leprosa) is a native semi-aquatic species of the Iberian Peninsula, southern France, and North Africa, widely distributed across Mediterranean aquatic systems. Within these environments, M.
Eduardo José Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Wouter De Vries, Adolfo Marco   +2 more
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Climatic and topographic changes since the Miocene influenced the diversification and biogeography of the tent tortoise (Psammobates tentorius) species complex in Southern Africa

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2020
Background Climatic and topographic changes function as key drivers in shaping genetic structure and cladogenic radiation in many organisms. Southern Africa has an exceptionally diverse tortoise fauna, harbouring one-third of the world’s tortoise genera.
Zhongning Zhao, Neil Heideman, Phillip Bester, Adriaan Jordaan, Margaretha D. Hofmeyr   +4 more
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Variability in DNA COI sequences reveals new haplotypes in freshwater turtles from northern region of India

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2018
The chelonian represents a diverse order of turtles. Little is known about this group from India at molecular level. Cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) sequences of 125 individuals from nine species of freshwater turtles were generated and analyzed. A total of
Ranjana Bhaskar, Vindhya Mohindra
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