Soft-robotic green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) developed to replace animal experimentation provides new insight into their propulsive strategies [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) can swim up to 50 km per day while only consuming seagrass or microalgae. How the animal accomplishes this vast journey on such low energy intake points to the effectiveness of their swimming technique and is a ...
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Climate Change and Green Sea Turtle Sex Ratio-Preventing Possible Extinction. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2020 Climate change poses a threat to species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD). A recent study on green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) at the northern Great Barrier Reef (GBR) showed a highly female-skewed sex ratio with almost all juvenile turtles being female.
Blechschmidt J, Wittmann MJ, Blüml C.
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Hearing in the Juvenile Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas): A Comparison of Underwater and Aerial Hearing Using Auditory Evoked Potentials. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Sea turtles spend much of their life in aquatic environments, but critical portions of their life cycle, such as nesting and hatching, occur in terrestrial environments, suggesting that it may be important for them to detect sounds in both air and water.
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Using accelerometers for tracking loggerhead and green sea turtle behaviour. [PDF]
Anim BiotelemetryAbstract Background Understanding animal behaviour is critical for the design of effective conservation and management strategies. Animal-borne tri-axial accelerometers constitute a type of biologging device which have the potential to provide continuous high-resolution behavioural data.
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Testing sea urchin and green sea turtle consumption of the allelopathic macroalga Galaxaura divaricata. [PDF]
Ecol EvolAbstractGalaxaura divaricata is a partially calcified macroalga that hampers coral recruitment, growth, and recovery via the excretion of allelopathic secondary metabolites. Herbivorous fishes are not major consumers of Galaxaura spp. and there is a need to understand feeding preferences for Galaxaura divaricata in other macroherbivores, like sea ...
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Metagenomic insights reveal the differences in the community composition and functional characteristics of the sea turtle microbiomes based on host species and tissue region [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyIntroduction and methodsSea turtles have been proposed as health indicators of marine ecosystems for their characteristic of longevity and migratory, but they are facing serious threats due to various factors.
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They're Out There, You Know: Sea Turtle Sightings and Strandings in Canadian Pacific Waters [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionPacific sea turtle populations primarily inhabit subtropical and tropical waters, making sightings at the edge of their range in colder high‐latitude regions of the Canadian Pacific particularly uncommon and even rare. This paper presents a comprehensive
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) is involved in the regulation of essential reproductive processes such as gametogenesis and follicular growth. There are presently no immunoassays for measuring FSH in turtles.
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Forensic Science International: Animals and Environments, 2021 Historically the oils from sea turtles have had a high commercial demand, and this trade has contributed to an alarming decrease in sea turtle populations worldwide.
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