Threats and Vulnerabilities for the Globally Distributed Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) Sea Turtle: A Historical and Current Status Evaluation

L Cáceres-Farias, E Reséndiz, J Espinoza… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Showing one of the most extraordinary phenomena in nature, with
thousands or hundreds of thousands of females coming out of the water to nest in a highly …

Chemical ecology of the marine plankton

ER Brown, MR Cepeda, SJ Mascuch… - Natural Product …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: January 2015 through December 2017 This review focuses on recent studies on
the chemical ecology of planktonic marine ecosystems, with the objective of presenting a …

Key issues in assessing threats to sea turtles: knowledge gaps and future directions

MMPB Fuentes, E McMichael, CY Kot… - Endangered Species …, 2023 - int-res.com
Sea turtles are an iconic group of marine megafauna that have been exposed to multiple
anthropogenic threats across their different life stages, especially in the past decades. This …

Multi-species okadaic acid contamination and human poisoning during a massive bloom of Dinophysis acuminata complex in southern Brazil

LL Mafra Jr, PKW Nolli, LE Mota, C Domit, M Soeth… - Harmful Algae, 2019 - Elsevier
On June 2016, a major bloom of Dinophysis acuminata complex was noticed over the coast
of Paraná State (PR), southern Brazil, an area unprotected by any official monitoring …

Insights on Immune Function in Free-Ranging Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas) with and without Fibropapillomatosis

JR Perrault, M Levin, CR Mott, CM Bovery, MJ Bresette… - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Sea turtles are susceptible to several herpesviruses that are linked to
dermatologic diseases, including fibropapillomatosis (FP) and lung-eye-trachea disease …

Sea turtles in the cancer risk landscape: a global meta-analysis of fibropapillomatosis prevalence and associated risk factors

AM Dujon, G Schofield, RM Venegas, F Thomas… - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Several cancer risk factors (exposure to ultraviolet-B, pollution, toxins and pathogens) have
been identified for wildlife, to form a “cancer risk landscape.” However, information remains …

Sea turtle fibropapilloma tumors share genomic drivers and therapeutic vulnerabilities with human cancers

DJ Duffy, C Schnitzler, L Karpinski, R Thomas… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Wildlife populations are under intense anthropogenic pressures, with the geographic range
of many species shrinking, dramatic reductions in population numbers and undisturbed …

Variation in species composition, size and fitness of two multi-species sea turtle assemblages using different neritic habitats

MM Lamont, D Johnson - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The neritic environment is rich in resources and as such plays a crucial role as foraging
habitat for multi-species marine assemblages, including sea turtles. However, this habitat …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic nutrients and phytoplankton diversity in Kenya's coastal waters: An ecological quality assessment of sea turtle foraging sites

NA Oduor, CN Munga, LK Imbayi, PK Botwe… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
We assessed ecological quality status (EQS) of coastal waters following claims of increasing
sea turtle fibro-papillomatosis (FP) infections in Kenya, a disease hypothesized to be …

Occurrence of potentially toxic microalgae and diarrhetic shellfish toxins in the digestive tracts of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) from southern Brazil

AR Moreira-González, C Domit, KMS Rosa, LL Mafra Jr - Harmful Algae, 2023 - Elsevier
Algal toxins are involved in the mortality and/or illness of marine organisms via consumption
of contaminated prey, or upon direct exposure to toxic cells. In this study, the presence of …