Evidence of accumulation and elimination of inorganic contaminants from the lachrymal salt glands of leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea)

JR Perrault, AF Lehner, JP Buchweitz, A Page-Karjian - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
… , the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), ingests excessive amounts of salts due
to … ionic regulation by removing excess salts from the body that are incurred through food and …

Physiological determinants of the internesting interval in sea turtles: a novel 'water-limitation'hypothesis

ER Price, PR Sotherland, BP Wallace… - Biology …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sea turtles deposit 1–4 kg of water per clutch in egg albumen; … turtles can recover this
water by estimating maximal salt … data on the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). …

Review of osmoregulation mechanisms of vertebrate marine animals, the Dugong dugon, Dermochelys coriacea, Pygoscelis adeliae, and Rachycentron canadum …

V Edmondson - The Cougar Journal of Undergraduate …, 2022 - journals.calstate.edu
… , ambient salts threaten those whose cells cannot tolerate oceanwater or sufficiently regulate
… These glands are morphologically similar to that of a green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas, and …

Plasma chemistry in nesting leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) from Florida: Understanding the importance of sample hemolysis effects on blood …

NI Stacy, RM Chabot, CJ Innis, C Cray, KM Fraser… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Plasma chemistry is widely used in diagnostic and research settings in sea turtles. However…
electrophoresis from nesting leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) from Florida …

Drinking behaviors and water balance in marine vertebrates

R Rash, HB Lillywhite - Marine Biology, 2019 - Springer
… Thus, without regulation of water input, marine teleosts tend to be … salts are secreted via
paired lachrymal salt glands (Wyneken 2001). Leatherback sea turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, …

Genetic monitoring of the critically endangered leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) in the South West Atlantic

…, P Guimarães, L Amorim, A Martinelli… - Regional Studies in …, 2022 - Elsevier
… SWA subpopulation, from other subpopulations of this species and other sea turtle species
are shown in Supplementary Table S3. As the set of nuclear loci used in each of these …

Morphometrics and blood analytes of leatherback sea turtle hatchlings (Dermochelys coriacea) from Florida: reference intervals, temporal trends with clutch …

JR Perrault, A Page-Karjian, AN Morgan… - Journal of Comparative …, 2022 - Springer
… may influence BCI calculations (Fleming et al. 2020), our findings are similar to previous
reports of smaller body size in leatherback, green, and loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings with …

Accumulation of trace elements in leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) eggs from the south-western Caribbean indicates potential health risks to consumers

HM Guzman, S Kaiser, VJ van Hinsberg - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
… Most information currently available on sea turtle metal contents comes from green turtles
(Chelonia mydas) and loggerheads (Caretta caretta), mainly derived from organs, muscles …

Conservation Ecology of Freshwater Turtles in Saline Environments

M Agha - 2019 - search.proquest.com
… with range distributions overlapping a coastline or estuary, and seven sea turtles. We then
… bladder fluids can accumulate high salt concentrations, and thus some turtles can excrete …

Symblepharon, Ankyloblepharon, and Salt Gland Dysfunction in a Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta)

A Affuso, C Di Palma, L Meomartino, A Pace… - Veterinary …, 2022 - mdpi.com
… in the western Mediterranean Sea. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first report of
symblepharon with ankyloblepharon and salt gland dysfunction in Caretta caretta turtle. Ocular …