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Between the shells: a review of acute-phase proteins in turtles. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Vet Diagn Invest
Chong SM   +4 more
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Visual Accommodation in the Green Turtle

Science, 1967
Ophthalmological and anatomical studies indicate that the Atlantic green turtle is extremely myopic when its eyes are out of water. This finding bears on current theories of visual orientation and navigation in these animals.
D W, Ehrenfeld, A L, Koch
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Purification of thyrotropin from the pituitaries of two turtles: The green sea turtle and the snapping turtle

General and Comparative Endocrinology, 1981
Abstract The purification of thyrotropin from the pituitaries of two species of turtles was followed using a bioassay based on the uptake of radioiodide by the thyroid of the baby slider turtle, Pseudemys scripta . Conventional chromatographic techniques which had previously resulted in the separation of pituitary gonadotropins were used initially ...
D S, MacKenzie, P, Licht, H, Papkoff
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Are green turtles globally endangered?

Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2006
ABSTRACTAim  To examine the exploitation, recovery and current status of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) nesting at Ascension Island.Location  Ascension Island (UK) (7°57′ S, 14°22′ W), South Atlantic Ocean.Methods  We analysed records of the harvest of green turtles nesting at Ascension Island between 1822 and 1935, illustrating the decline in numbers ...
Annette C. Broderick   +7 more
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Green Turtle

2019
The Nigerian Field, 4 (1), 29 ...
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Anesthesia in the green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas

American Journal of Veterinary Research, 1982
SUMMARY Surgical anesthesia for green sea turtles weighing between 6 and 195 kg was achieved with the injectable anesthetics sodium pentobarbital, ketamine hydrochloride, and sodium thiopental. Induction of, duration of, and recovery from anesthesia varied among individual turtles.
F E, Wood, K H, Critchley, J R, Wood
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Transoceanic Migrations of the Green Turtle

BioScience, 1964
One aspect of the program of studies of marine turtles being carried out at the University of Florida' has been a small tagging project at Ascension Island, in the South Atlantic between Brazil and Africa. The aim was to test the assumption that the green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, is capable of long-range open-water navigation.
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