Turtles

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A timecourse analysis of systemic and gonadal effects of temperature on sexual development of the red-eared slider turtle Trachemys scripta elegans. 
  • Biomechanics of turtle shells: how whole shells fail in compression. 
  • Cellular mechanisms of sex determination in the red-eared slider turtle, Trachemys scripta. 
  • Colocalization of WT1 and cell proliferation reveals conserved mechanisms in temperature-dependent sex determination. 
  • Comparing effectiveness of experimental and implemented bycatch reduction measures: the ideal and the real. 
  • Comparing ontogenetic trajectories using growth process data. 
  • Complexity and variation in loggerhead sea turtle life history. 
  • Conservation hotspots for marine turtle nesting in the United States based on coastal development. 
  • Conserved action of β-catenin during female fate determination in the red-eared slider turtle. 
  • Correctly estimating how environmental stochasticity influences fitness and population growth. 
  • Deciphering function of the pulmonary arterial sphincters in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). 
  • Defining risk variables causing gas embolism in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) caught in trawls and gillnets. 
  • Dmrt1 induces the male pathway in a turtle species with temperature-dependent sex determination. 
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  • Estrogen represses SOX9 during sex determination in the red-eared slider turtle Trachemys scripta. 
  • Evaluating the landscape of fear between apex predatory sharks and mobile sea turtles across a large dynamic seascape. 
  • Gas embolism and massive blunt force trauma to sea turtles entrained in hopper dredges in North and South Carolina, USA. 
  • Germ cell depletion does not alter the morphogenesis of the fetal testis or ovary in the red-eared slider turtle (Trachemys scripta). 
  • Global patterns of marine mammal, seabird, and sea turtle bycatch reveal taxa-specific and cumulative megafauna hotspots. 
  • Habitat collapse due to overgrazing threatens turtle conservation in marine protected areas. 
  • Hierarchical state-space models of loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) movement in relation to turtle size and oceanographic features in the western Mediterranean Sea 
  • Implanted Nanosensors in Marine Organisms for Physiological Biologging: Design, Feasibility, and Species Variability. 
  • Incubation temperature effects on hatchling performance in the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). 
  • Olfactory Receptor Subgenomes Linked with Broad Ecological Adaptations in Sauropsida. 
  • Parallels in the visual afferent projections of the thalamus in the hedgehog (Paraechinus hypomelas) and the turtle (Pseudemys scripta). 
  • Phenotypically linked dichotomy in sea turtle foraging requires multiple conservation approaches. 
  • Predetermination of sexual fate in a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination. 
  • Pulmonary ventilation-perfusion mismatch: a novel hypothesis for how diving vertebrates may avoid the bends. 
  • Quantifying Nearshore Sea Turtle Densities: Applications of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Population Assessments 
  • Regional management units for marine turtles: a novel framework for prioritizing conservation and research across multiple scales. 
  • Sox8 is expressed at similar levels in gonads of both sexes during the sex determining period in turtles. 
  • Species specific differences in the in vitro metabolism of the flame retardant mixture, Firemaster® BZ-54. 
  • Temperature, genes, and sex: a comparative view of sex determination in Trachemys scripta and Mus musculus. 
  • Temperature-dependent sex determination is mediated by pSTAT3 repression of Kdm6b. 
  • Thalamotelencephalic projections in the turtle (Pseudemys scripta). 
  • The concentration of catecholamines in the turtle heart and vagal escape. 
  • The connections and laminar organization ofthe optic tectum in a reptile (lguana iguana). 
  • The histone demethylase KDM6B regulates temperature-dependent sex determination in a turtle species. 
  • The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage. 
  • Time to diuretics in acute heart failure: the tortoise or the hare? 
  • Type I and type II keratins have evolved from lower eukaryotes to form the epidermal intermediate filaments in mammalian skin. 
  • Using telemetry to mitigate the by-catch of long-lived marine vertebrates 
  • Visual cortex in a reptile, the turtle (Pseudemys scripta and Chrysemys picta). 
  • Visual pathways to the telencephalon in reptiles and mammals. 
  • Visual wavelength discrimination by the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta. 
  • What makes them pay? Values of volunteer tourists working for sea turtle conservation.