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Shell Constraints on Evolutionary Body Size–Limb Size Allometry Can Explain Morphological Conservatism in the Turtle Body Plan

open access: yesEcology and Evolution
Turtles are a small clade of vertebrates despite having existed since the Late Triassic. Turtles have a conservative body plan relative to other amniotes, characterized by the presence of a shell and quadrupedality.
Guilherme Hermanson, Serjoscha W. Evers
doaj   +1 more source

First census of the green turtle at Poilão, Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau: the most important nesting colony on the Atlantic coast of Africa [PDF]

open access: bronze, 2002
Paulo Catry   +5 more
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Evaluation of a Pound Net Leader Designed to Reduce Sea Turtle Bycatch [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Offshore pound net leaders in the southern portion of Chesapeake Bay in Virginia waters were documented to incidentally take protected loggerhead, Caretta caretta, and Kemp’s ridley, Lepidochelys kempii, sea turtles.
Dealteris, Joseph T.   +2 more
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Shell softening and shell rot in turtles [PDF]

open access: yesEurasian Journal of Veterinary Sciences
In the present case report series the aim was to emphasize treatment applications in four red-eared slider at the age of 2-3 years old referring with histories of softened-shell on carapace's rear edges and centrum and anorexia and two land turtles ...
Arif Kurtdede   +3 more
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The uphill turtle race: on short time nucleation probabilities

open access: yes, 2002
The short time behavior of nucleation probabilities is studied by representing nucleation as diffusion in a potential well with escape over a barrier. If initially all growing nuclei start at the bottom of the well, the first nucleation time on average ...
van Beijeren, Henk
core   +1 more source

Partner fidelity and environmental filtering preserve stage‐specific turtle ant gut symbioses for over 40 million years

open access: green, 2022
Yi Hu   +10 more
openalex   +2 more sources

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