Seasonal and Sexual Variations in Corticosterone and Total Triiodothyronine: A Pilot Study in Mediterranean Tortoises (Testudo hermanni) [PDF]
AnimalsThe Mediterranean tortoise Testudo hermanni inhabits different regions bordering the northwestern Mediterranean. This species is vulnerable, protected by legislation, and involved in various breeding and reintroduction programs.
Sergi Olvera-Maneu +5 more
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Taking advantage of reference-guided assembly in a slowly-evolving lineage: Application to Testudo graeca. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundObtaining de novo chromosome-level genome assemblies greatly enhances conservation and evolutionary biology studies. For many research teams, long-read sequencing technologies (that produce highly contiguous assemblies) remain unaffordable or ...
Andrea Mira-Jover +5 more
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Niche diversification of Mediterranean and southwestern Asian tortoises [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background Tortoises of the genus Testudo are widely distributed throughout the Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia. However, the evolutionary mechanisms of diversification in this genus are still poorly understood.
Daniel Escoriza, Jihene Ben Hassine
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Where do you come from, stranger? A scientific-historical digression with discussion on nomenclature and taxonomy of Testudo graeca Linnaeus, 1758 [PDF]
Herpetozoa, 2020 It is shown that the location data for the terra typica restricta of Testudo graeca and for the terra typica designata for Testudo graeca are based on an incorrectly assigned location. In fact, the original place corresponds to Santa Cruz, known today as
Mario Schweiger, Richard Gemel
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PLoS ONE, 2023 Anhydrobiosis is a desiccation tolerance that denotes the ability to survive almost complete dehydration without sustaining damage. The knowledge on the survival capacity of various tardigrade species in anhydrobiosis is still very limited.
Milena Roszkowska +7 more
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, 2023 Published as part of Sampaio, Aline & Fonseca, Claudio Ruy Vasconcelos Da, 2023, Catalog of the Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) deposited in the entomological collections of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) and the Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Brazil, with an illustrated key for the genera occurring ...
Sampaio, Aline +1 more
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The earliest known crown-Testudo tortoise from the late Miocene (Vallesian, 9 Ma) of Greece.
PLoS ONE, 2020 We here report on fossil remains of the earliest known crown-Testudo, an extant clade of Mediterranean testudinid tortoises from the late Miocene (Vallesian, MN 10) from the hominoid locality Ravin de la Pluie (RPl) in Greece.
Géraldine Garcia +6 more
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Symmetry-Breaking Stabilities in Carapace Curvature on Testudo (Reptilia, Testudinidae)
Animals, 2022 The aim of this research was to contribute to the study of the doming geometry of Testudo carapace as an unstable point of equilibrium when animals are overturned.
Pere M. Parés-Casanova +3 more
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Molecular Characterization of the Gastrula in the Turtle Emys orbicularis: An Evolutionary Perspective on Gastrulation [PDF]
, 2008 Due to the presence of a blastopore as in amphibians, the turtle has been suggested to exemplify a transition form from an amphibian- to an avian-type gastrulation pattern.
A Perea-Gomez +53 more
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