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TURTLES

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 2007
Juvenile turtles have the capacity to eat more than 500 3rd and 4th instar mosquitos per day. Keeping one turtle in each water-storage tank during field trials for a dengue-control project in Honduras eliminated all mosquito production from the tanks. In Louisiana, keeping turtles in residential roadside ditches polluted by septic-tank effluent reduced
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Marine Organisms Fouling on Ghost Nets in the Sounio Marine Protected Area (Greece)

Pollutants
Ghost nets are the result of fishing nets ending up at sea by fishing vessels during operations, repairs, accidental loss, and from aquaculture activities.
Nikolaos Simantiris, Nikos Karatzas, Dimitra Papadoiliopoulou, Martha Z. Vardaki   +3 more
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A taxonomic revision of geoemydid turtles from Siwalik-age of India and Pakistan

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2020
Neogene (Siwalik-aged) deposits from India and Pakistan have yielded many vertebrate fossils, of which most were named during the 19th century, including numerous geoemydid turtles.
Rafaella C. Garbin, Saswati Bandyopadhyay, Walter G. Joyce   +2 more
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Can tortoises facilitate the germination of plants with dry fruits? A simulation of the effects of Chelonoidis carbonarius (Testudines: Testudinidae) on the germination of Leucaena leucocephala (Fabaceae)

Rodriguésia
Ingestion of seeds by vertebrates may influence seed germination and dispersion. However the mechanisms responsible by these effects and the importance of turtles in these interactions are still poorly understood.
João Fabrício Mota Rodrigues, Sâmia Paiva de Oliveira   +1 more
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Basicladia chelonum (Collins) W.E. Hoffmann et Tilden (Chlorophyta, Cladophorophyceae) from Cuba (Caribbean): new observation of the ultrastructure of its vegetative cells

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2011
Basicladia chelonum (Collins) W.E. Hoffmann and Tilden (1930) principally known from North America and Hawaii was recently (2004) found in Cuba (Caribbean) from artificial pool growing on shells of musk turtles (Trachemys decussata Gray).
Joanna Czerwik-Marcinkowska, Teresa Mrozińska, Maria Webb-Janich   +2 more
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The Role of Nest Depth and Site Choice in Mitigating the Effects of Climate Change on an Oviparous Reptile

Diversity, 2020
Climate change is likely to have strong impacts on oviparous animals with minimal parental care, because nest temperature can impact egg development, sex, and survival, especially in the absence of mitigation via parental care.
Rebecca A. Czaja, Amanda L. Scholz, Miranda P. Figueras, Russell L. Burke   +3 more
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Blood Vitamin Concentrations in Pond Sliders (Trachemys scripta) Under Human Care in Central Europe and Possible Seasonal and Sex-Specific Influences

Animals
Vitamin A deficiency is common in pond sliders, and vitamin E and B1 deficiencies have also been described in carnivorous aquatic species such as crocodiles, but otherwise little is known about vitamin concentrations in the blood of reptiles, and ...
Christoph Leineweber, Gregor Geisler, Sabine Öfner, Rachel E. Marschang   +3 more
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Plasma cholinesterase activity as an environmental impact biomarker in juvenile green turtles (Chelonia mydas) [PDF]

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira
: The objective of this study was to evaluate the enzymatic activity of plasma cholinesterase in Chelonia mydas marine turtles belonging to two populations, according to their capture sites, under the absence and probable influence of anthropic effects ...
Leandro A. Fonseca, Andres M.O. Orozco, Pollyanna C. Souto, Lorraine R.S. Dornelas, Wilson P.C. Filho, Fabricia M. Girardi, Pedro A.N. Ermita, Valéria Fagundes   +7 more
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Distribution of GFAP in Squamata: Extended Immunonegative Areas, Astrocytes, High Diversity, and Their Bearing on Evolution

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2020
Squamata is one of the richest and most diverse extant groups. The present study investigates the glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)-immunopositive elements of five lizard and three snake species; each represents a different family.
Dávid Lõrincz, Mihály Kálmán
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Caretta caretta [PDF]

, 1990
Number of Pages: 7Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Dodd, C. Kenneth, Jr.
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