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O arquipiélago de Cabo Verde e a conservação das tartarugas marinhas [PDF]
, 2007 [Abstract] Sea turtles are species which are protected throughout the world, they are emigrant populations which are present throughout the world, and also in Cape Verde. We present a study which has as its objectives some knowledge of the existence of sea turtles in Cape Verde, the identification of the most frequently spotted species and the beaches ...
Merino, Sonia +3 more
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Trends in Medicinal Uses of Edible Wild Vertebrates in Brazil. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2017 The use of food medicines is a widespread practice worldwide. In Brazil, such use is often associated with wild animals, mostly focusing on vertebrate species. Here we assessed taxonomic and ecological trends in traditional uses of wild edible vertebrates in the country, through an extensive ethnobiological database analysis. Our results showed that at
Alves RRN +3 more
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Hitchhiking the high seas: Global genomics of rafting crabs. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2019 Next‐generation sequencing of genomewide restriction‐site‐associated DNA tags (RADseq) and traditional mitochondrial DNA sequencing were used to investigate the species‐level relationships and global population structure of Planes crabs collected from oceanic flotsam and sea turtles. Our results indicate that species diversity in this clade is low—only
Pfaller JB +4 more
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The trade in medicinal animals in northeastern Brazil. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2012 Over the centuries, a significant part of the Brazilian fauna is widely sold, more specifically in retail stores or street markets. The objective was to characterize the sale of medicinal animals in five large northeast cities. Information about the sale of zootherapeutic items was obtained in the cities of Aracaju‐SE, Fortaleza‐CE, Maceio‐AL, Recife ...
Ferreira FS +4 more
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Biochemical indices and life traits of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) from Cape Verde Islands. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2014 The loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) is an endangered marine reptile for whom assessing population health requires knowledge of demographic parameters such as individual growth rate.
Vieira S +4 more
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Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, Volume 335, Issue 5, Page 489-498, June 2021., 2021 In handling experiments, Corticosterone (Cort) exhibited no significant increase when hatchlings were handled once a week (Control), whereas Cort was significantly elevated when hatchlings were handled once every 2 weeks (LHF), suggesting that hatchlings have the ability to acclimate to frequent handling.
Alejandro Usategui‐Martín +7 more
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Morfometria do coração e dos vasos da base e sua implicação no mergulho em Chelonia mydas
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2013 Objetivou-se caracterizar a morfologia das câmaras cardíacas e das artérias aortas e pulmonares da espécie Chelonia mydas. Foram avaliados 11 espécimes de C. mydas mortas coletadas no litoral do estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil.
Janine K.F.S. Braz +3 more
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Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2014 Blood profiles were determined in 47 juvenile green turtles, Chelonia mydas, from São Paulo northern coast, Brazil. Twenty-nine were affected by fibropapillomas and 18 were tumor free.
Ticiana Zwarg +5 more
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Archives of Veterinary Science, 2021 As tartarugas-verdes (Chelonia mydas) são afetadas pela fibropapilomatose (FP), doença que pode ser uma ameaça para elas. O trabalho teve como objetivo descrever as características histopatológicas dos tumores sugestivos de FP e pesquisar a presença de DNA de Chelonid alphaherpesvirus 5 (ChHV5) em lesões cutâneas de 26 tartarugas verdes encalhadas na ...
Edson Soares da Silva Júnior +11 more
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Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2009 The green turtle Chelonia mydas feeds and nests in the Brazilian coastal area and is considered an endangered species by the World Conservation Union (IUCN 2009) and threatened by the Red List of Brazilian Fauna (Ministério do Meio Ambiente 2009 ...
Silmara Rossi +5 more
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