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OXYGEN TRANSPORT IN MARINE GREEN TURTLE (CHELONIA MYDAS) HATCHLINGS: BLOOD VISCOSITY AND CONTROL OF HEMOGLOBIN OXYGEN AFFINITY
... from green turtle hatchlings contain a single embryonic component, unlike those from other cleidoic eggs, in which adult hemoglobin (Hb) constitutes a significant fraction of total Hb at ...purified ...
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Hydrodynamic effect of a satellite transmitter on a juvenile green turtle (Chelonia mydas)
... on green and loggerhead (Caretta caretta) ...that green turtles have superior streamlining and thrusting capacity, leading to higher swimming speeds than those achieved by ...juvenile green ...
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Vulnerability of sea turtles to climate change: a case study within the northern Great Barrier Reef green turtle population
... The second part of my thesis involved incorporating the predicted impacts from the climatic processes to each nesting ground into a vulnerability assessment framework for climate change. The framework used is based on ...
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Validation of an optimised protocol for quantification of microplastics in heterogenous samples: a case study using green turtle chyme
... seven turtle species are known to be affected by plastic debris globally [7 – ...of green turtles make them highly susceptible to ingestion of marine debris ...among green turtle food sources ...
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Characteristics of traditional dugong and green turtle fisheries in Torres Strait: opportunities for management
... and green turtles (Chelonia mydas) is a complex social and ecological ...and green turtles are protected by Australian national and sub-national conservation ...of green turtles, but also has high ...
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Swimming for your life: locomotor effort and oxygen consumption during the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchling frenzy
... in green turtle hatchlings hatched on coral reef cays is important in determining their chances of surviving to adulthood because large numbers of hatchlings are eaten as they swim through a gauntlet of ...
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Contribution to the study of the green turtle (chelonia mydas) diet in the South Atlantic, Northeast Brazil
... the green turtle diet at other feeding sites, such as Hawaii (Arthur & Balazs 2009), Uruguay (López - Mendilaharsu et ...of green turtles in relation to the brown algae Sargassum horridum and ...
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Colour vision of green turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchlings: do they still prefer blue under water?
... emerged green turtle hatchlings from the same nest were collected from Heron Island, Queensland (23 ◦ 26 0 S, 151 ◦ 51 0 E) under permits from the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection ...
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REPORT ON THE 2004 GREEN TURTLE PROGRAM AT TORTUGUERO, COSTA RICA
... 2004 Green Turtle Program research team; all the data presented here were collected by Research Coordinator Emma Harrison and her research assistants Martín Abrego (Panama), Máximo Becker (Panama), Ronal ...
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Detection of Antibodies to a Disease Associated Herpesvirus of the Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas
... of green turtle plasma samples diluted 1:25 in PBS/TM or negative or positive LETV antibody control plasma diluted 1:100 in PBS plus 2% FBS (PBS/F) were added to the appropriate ...(anti-green ...
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Vulnerability of sea turtles to climate change: a case study within the northern Great Barrier Reef green turtle population
... The second key process I examined was potential changes to incubation temperatures. For this, I first conducted a systematic process to select the best predictive model of sand temperature. Using Akaike Information ...
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Geographic Structure of Mitochondrial and Nuclear Gene Polymorphisms in Australian Green Turtle Populations and Male-Biased Gene Flow
... This is not supported because the GoC and WA popula- tions, which mtDNA phylogeography suggests are the most recently separated (NORMAN et at. The most dramatic difference i[r] ...
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Global population genetic structure and male-mediated gene flow in the green turtle (Chelonia mydas): RFLP analyses of anonymous nuclear loci.
... We introduce an approach for the analysis of Mendelian polymorphisms in nuclear DNA (nDNA), using restriction fragment patterns from anonymous single-copy regions amplified b[r] ...
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Validation of the use of doubly labeled water for estimating metabolic rate in the green turtle (Chelonia mydas L ): a word of caution
... Marine turtles often have extremely high water turnover accompanied by a low field metabolic rate (FMR), a combination that can contraindicate the use of doubly labelled water (DLW). Therefore, we conducted a validation ...
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Orientation to Oceanic Waves by Green Turtle Hatchlings
... Instead, hatchlings tethered offshore in floating orientation arenas consistently swam towards the direction of wave approach Salmon and Lohmann, 1989; Lohmann et al.. Wave tank experime[r] ...
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Vessel speed increases collision risk for the green turtle Chelonia mydas
... ensure turtle safety: (1) a ded- icated observer at the bow at all times, (2) travel restricted to high visibility conditions, (3) relatively low maximum speed, and (4) emergency stops when re- ...a turtle ...
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SOME ASPECTS OF ELECTROLYTE EXCRETION IN THE GREEN TURTLE, CHELONIA MYDAS MYDAS
... The significant reduction in the initial rates of excretion and in the total amounts of sodium and potassium excreted after treatment of the fed and saline-loaded turtles with amphenone [r] ...
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Insights into the ecology of hatchlings of the green turtle, Chelonia mydas: implications for the life histories of the marine turtles
... E Gyuris 28 March 1993 Note: Part of the work presented in Chapter 3 is to be published by the journal "Coral Reefs" under the title "The rate of predation by fishes on the hatchlings of[r] ...
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Insights into the ecology of hatchlings of the green turtle, Chelonia mydas: implications for the life histories of the marine turtles
... E Gyuris 28 March 1993 Note: Part of the work presented in Chapter 3 is to be published by the journal "Coral Reefs" under the title "The rate of predation by fishes on the hatchlings of[r] ...
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Ontogenetic changes in diet and habitat use in green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) life history
... of green turtle epidermal tissue across all primary life history ...that green pelagic juvenile turtles in this western Pacific population undergo an ontogenetic shift as they recruit from the ...
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