The first Oligocene sea turtle (Pan-Cheloniidae) record of South America [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 The evolution and occurrence of fossil sea turtles at the Pacific margin of South America is poorly known and restricted to Neogene (Miocene/Pliocene) findings from the Pisco Formation, Peru.
Edwin Cadena, Juan Abella, Maria Gregori
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Morphological features of the nasal cavities of hawksbill, olive ridley, and black sea turtles: Comparative studies with green, loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 We analyzed the internal structure of the nasal cavities of hawksbill, olive ridley and black sea turtles from computed tomography images. The nasal cavities of all three species consisted of a vestibule, nasopharyngeal duct and cavum nasi proprium that ...
Chiyo Kitayama +14 more
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The genome sequence of the Loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta Linnaeus 1758 [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2023 We present a genome assembly of Caretta caretta (the Loggerhead sea turtle; Chordata, Testudines, Cheloniidae), generated from genomic data from two unrelated females. The genome sequence is 2.13 gigabases in size.
Andrew Mungall +20 more
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Heart rate and cardiac response to exercise during voluntary dives in captive sea turtles (Cheloniidae) [PDF]
Biology Open, 2020 In chelonids, oxygen is primarily stored in the lungs during a dive. Therefore, management of blood oxygen transportation to peripheral tissues by cardiovascular adjustments during submergence is crucial to maximize their dive duration, and consequently,
Junichi Okuyama +2 more
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Marine turtles are only minimally sexually size dimorphic, a pattern that is distinct from most nonmarine aquatic turtles [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Turtles have been prominent subjects of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) analyses due to their compact taxonomy, mating systems, and habitat diversity. In prior studies, marine turtles were grouped with fully aquatic non‐marine turtles (NMATs).
Christine Figgener +2 more
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Heterochromatin and microsatellites detection in karyotypes of four sea turtle species: Interspecific chromosomal differences [PDF]
Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2020 The wide variation in size and content of eukaryotic genomes is mainly attributed to the accumulation of repetitive DNA sequences, like microsatellites, which are tandemly repeated DNA sequences.
Caroline Regina Dias Machado +6 more
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An ancestral hard-shelled sea turtle with a mosaic of soft skin and scutes [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The transition from terrestrial to marine environments by secondarily aquatic tetrapods necessitates a suite of adaptive changes associated with life in the sea, e.g., the scaleless skin in adult individuals of the extant leatherback turtle.
Randolph Glenn De La Garza +10 more
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Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2020 To conserve national biodiversity, enlisting and detailed morphological description of unrecorded species is critical. Here, we, for the first time in Korea, report and describe detailed morphological characteristics of two juvenile hawksbill turtles ...
Jaejin Park +2 more
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Nesting ecology of Chelonia mydas Testudines: Cheloniidae on the Guanahacabibes Peninsula, Cuba
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2013 The nesting colony of green sea turtles Chelonia mydas at Guanahacabibes Peninsula Biosphere Reserve and National Park is one of the largest in the Cuban archipelago; however, little information about its nesting ecology is available.
Julia Azanza Ricardo +6 more
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Open Quaternary, 2018 Historical and archaeological evidence documents the importation of sea turtles from the eastern Pacific Ocean (Baja California) to California during the Gold Rush (1848–1855) and through the end of 19th century, but it is unknown whether these 19th ...
Calandra Turner Tomaszewicz +2 more
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