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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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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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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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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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A Guide to Nesting Sea Turtles in Florida
EDIS, 2021 Florida’s coastline provides critical habitat for sea turtle nesting, as it has for millions of years. Throughout the state, three of the seven species of sea turtles in the world have significant nesting populations.
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Isolation and Characterization of Chelonia mydas Myoglobin
Hayati Journal of Biosciences, 2012 Green sea turtle – Chelonia mydas is a lung respiration animal that is able to dive and stay uder sea water for hours without needing to surface for oxygen.
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Loggerhead and green turtles inhabit all oceans except the polar regions. External surfaces of sea turtles are often colonized by epibiotic chelonibiid barnacles.
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Forty years of monitoring increasing sea turtle relative abundance in the Gulf of Mexico
Scientific Reports, 2023 Longitudinal data sets for population abundance are essential for studies of imperiled organisms with long life spans or migratory movements, such as marine turtles.
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Endangered Species Research, 2023 Incidental bycatch of sea turtles from recreational fisheries is generally undocumented globally. At Gulf of Mexico fishing piers in the USA, bycatch is a source of injury and potential mortality of sea turtles.
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A dataset of sea turtle occurrences around the Taiwan coast [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 We describe a dataset of sea turtle sightings around the coast of Taiwan and its islands (Hoh and Fong 2022). This data collection was initiated by TurtleSpot Taiwan, a citizen-science project that collects sea turtle sighting data. This dataset includes
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