Effect of rainfall on loggerhead turtle nest temperatures, sand temperatures and hatchling sex

A Lolavar, J Wyneken - Endangered Species Research, 2015 - int-res.com
Marine turtles deposit their eggs in underground nests where they develop unattended and
without parental care. Incubation temperature varies with environmental conditions …

[HTML][HTML] Exogenous estradiol alters gonadal growth and timing of temperature sex determination in gonads of sea turtle

V Díaz-Hernández, A Marmolejo-Valencia… - Developmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Temperature sex determining species offer a model for investigating how environmental
cues become integrated to the regulation of patterning genes and growth, among bipotential …

Embryonic sex steroid hormones accumulate in the eggshell of loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)

S Kobayashi, Y Saito, A Osawa, E Katsumata… - General and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Steroids hormones such as estradiol-17β (E2) and testosterone (T) are involved in gonadal
differentiation of oviparous animals with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) …