scholarly journals Carapace length—body weight relationship and size and sex ratio of the northeastern Pacific green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas carrinegra

1962 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
David K.‏ Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Carapace Length ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Sea Turtle ◽  
Green Sea Turtle ◽  
Weight Relationship ◽  
Northeastern Pacific

Temperature variation within and between nests of the green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas (Chelonia: Cheloniidae) on Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef

2001 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Booth ◽  
Katherine Astill
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Sea Turtle ◽  
Diurnal Fluctuation ◽  
Nest Temperature ◽  
Green Sea Turtle ◽  
Data Loggers ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Biased Sex Ratio ◽  
Nesting Season

Four temperature data-loggers were placed in each of five green sea turtle nests on Heron Island in the 1998–99 nesting season. Temperatures in all nests increased as incubation progressed due to general sand heating and increased metabolic heat production of the developing embryos. Even at the top of nests no daily diurnal fluctuation in temperature was evident. The temperature of eggs in the middle of the nest increased above those in the nest periphery during the last third of incubation. However, this metabolic nest heating would have little effect on hatchling sex ratio because it occurred after the sex-determining period. Small differences in temperature between regions of a nest persisted throughout incubation and may be important in ensuring the production of at least some individuals of the opposite sex in nests that have temperatures close to either the all-male or all-female determining temperatures. Location and degree of shading of nests had little effect on mean nest temperature, but deeper nests were generally cooler and therefore were predicted to produce a higher proportion of males than were shallower nests. Nest temperature profile data indicated that the 1998–99 nesting season on Heron Island would have produced a strongly female-biased sex ratio amongst hatchlings.

Immunological studies with the gonadotropins and their subunits from the green sea turtle Chelonia mydas

1977 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Licht ◽  
Duncan S. MacKenzie ◽  
Harold Papkoff ◽  
Susan Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Sea Turtle ◽  
Green Sea Turtle

Identification of Papilloma-Like Virus Particles in Cell Lines Derived from Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia Mydas) With Fibropapilloma

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1158-1159
Author(s):  
Yuanan Lu ◽  
Vivek R. Nerurkar ◽  
Tina M. Weatherby ◽  
Richard Yanagihara
Keyword(s):  
Cell Lines ◽  
Soft Tissues ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Sea Turtle ◽  
Green Sea Turtle ◽  
Virus Particles ◽  
Green Sea Turtles ◽  
Multiple Organs ◽  
Isolation And Characterization

The near epidemic occurrence of fibropapilloma in green sea turtle (Chelonia my das) (Figure 1) significantly threatens the survival of this species which is protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Although collective evidence suggests a viral etiology, the causative virus of green sea turtle fibropapilloma has not been isolated. To facilitate the isolation and characterization of the causative virus(es), we established 13 cell lines from multiple organs/tissues (tumor, kidney, lung, heart, gall bladder, testis, and skin) of green sea turtles with fibropapilloma. Serial subcultivation of cell lines derived from lungs, testis, eye soft tissues and tumors resulted in the formation of tumor-like aggregates, which attained sizes of 1-2 mm in diameter within two weeks (Figure 2). Media from such cultures, when inoculated onto cells derived from healthy turtle embryos, produced similar tumor-like aggregates, suggesting the presence of a transmissible agent.

The Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas): mating, nesting and hatching on a farm

2009 ◽  
Vol 177 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlin H. Simon ◽  
Glenn F. Ulrich ◽  
Alan S. Parkes
Keyword(s):  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Sea Turtle ◽  
Green Sea Turtle

Predation on green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, hatchlings by invasive rats

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Gronwald ◽  
Quentin Genet ◽  
Margaux Touron
Keyword(s):  
Food Source ◽  
Sea Turtles ◽  
Rattus Rattus ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Sea Turtle ◽  
French Polynesia ◽  
Camera Traps ◽  
Green Sea Turtle ◽  
Green Sea Turtles ◽  
Invasive Rats

We used camera traps to identify invasive Rattus rattus as predators at a green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, nest in French Polynesia. The footage shows that the hatchlings are a familiar food source for rats and that the control of invasive rats has to be considered for the protection of endangered green sea turtles.

IMMUNOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF CAPTIVE GREEN SEA TURTLE (CHELONIA MYDAS) WITH ULCERATIVE DERMATITIS

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 837-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Alberto Muñoz ◽  
Sergio Estrada-Parra ◽  
Andrés Romero-Rojas ◽  
Erik Gonzalez-Ballesteros ◽  
Thierry M. Work ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Sea Turtle ◽  
Green Sea Turtle ◽  
Immunological Evaluation
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