… We measured the salt and water balance of hatchling leatherback sea turtles, Dermochelys
coriacea, during their first few days of life to investigate how they maintain homeostasis …

… is primarily regulated by specialized cephalic salt-secreting … osmotic pressures of leatherback
salt gland secretions before, … values compare to three other sea turtle species. Hatchling D. …

… , 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 …

… On the other hand, leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) appear to cry … While
little is known of the mechanisms that control sea turtle salt gland activity, there appear to be …

… sea turtle species, the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) …
In order to establish correlations with low reproductive success in leatherback sea turtles …

… Leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) are capital … The role of the gut in sea turtles in
ionic regulation is largely … fish if the turtles are to remain in salt and water balance. There is …

… , 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 …

… This is true of the leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), the largest of all sea turtle species,
… Shelf and slope waters in temperate and boreal regions of the Atlantic support enhanced …

… Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in particular might be more susceptible
to physiological changes during the nesting season in comparison with other marine turtle …

… control in an animal is a regional or whole body process. Here I report that metabolic rates
of isolated leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) … rates of green turtle (Chelonia mydas) …