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Comparison of the Single-Cell Immune Landscape of Testudines from Different Habitats [PDF]
Cells, 2022 Testudines, also known as living fossils, have evolved diversely and comprise many species that occupy a variety of ecological niches. However, the immune adaptation of testudines to the different ecological niches remains poorly understood.
Rui Guo +4 more
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Animals, 2022 The Indian star tortoise (Geochelone elegans) is a massively traded animal in South Asia. To mitigate this risk, the conservation agencies recommended guidelines to safeguard this charismatic species in nature.
Shantanu Kundu +6 more
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A new model of forelimb ecomorphology for predicting the ancient habitats of fossil turtles
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Various morphological proxies have been used to infer habitat preferences among fossil turtles and their early ancestors, but most are tightly linked to phylogeny, thereby minimizing their predictive power. One particularly widely used model incorporates
Thomas W. Dudgeon +4 more
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Trophic interactions between larger crocodylians and giant tortoises on Aldabra Atoll, Western Indian Ocean, during the Late Pleistocene [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Today, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Aldabra Atoll is home to about 100 000 giant tortoises, Aldabrachelys gigantea, whose fossil record goes back to the Late Pleistocene. New Late Pleistocene fossils (age ca.
Torsten M. Scheyer +5 more
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Marine debris ingestion and the use of diagnostic imaging in sea turtles: A review
Veterinární Medicína, 2020 Worldwide, sea turtles are affected by anthropic waste. Animals, unable to differentiate anthropic waste from food, ingest this waste from their surroundings.
Radan Elvis Matias de Oliveira +7 more
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Middle ear cavity morphology is consistent with an aquatic origin for testudines. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The position of testudines in vertebrate phylogeny is being re-evaluated. At present, testudine morphological and molecular data conflict when reconstructing phylogenetic relationships.
Katie L Willis +3 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Characterizing polymorphism at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes is key to understanding the vertebrate immune response to disease. Despite being globally afflicted by the infectious tumour disease fibropapillomatosis (FP), immunogenetic ...
Katherine R. Martin +2 more
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Anatomopathological findings of Testudines necropsied in the Distrito Federal, Brazil [PDF]
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2022 : In order to determine the main anatomopathological findings of Testudines necropsied in the Distrito Federal, all necropsy records performed at the “Laboratório de Patologia Veterinária” of the “Universidade de Brasília” (LPV-UnB) on Testudines during ...
Uilton G. Santos +6 more
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Animals, 2022 Marketed globally, freshwater turtles are popular pets. Two species of the Chelydridae family are increasingly reported in Italy: the snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) and the alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii).
Giuseppe Esposito +7 more
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Pathoanatomical findings of a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) victim of collision with a motorboat
Acta Veterinaria, 2021 In this paper we report the trauma suffered by a green turtle (Chelonia mydas), caused by a collision with a motorboat, and describe the case ante and post-mortem.
De Oliveira Radan Elvis Matias +9 more
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