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 …

Salt, water, and pH balance in the sea turtle

PL Lutz - The Biology of Sea Turtles, Volume I, 2017 - api.taylorfrancis.com
… 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 …

Crying a river: how much salt-laden jelly can a leatherback turtle really eat?

J Davenport - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
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 …

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 …

Nesting leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) packed cell volumes indicate decreased foraging during reproduction

JR Perrault, A Page-Karjian, DL Miller - Marine biology, 2016 - Springer
Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in particular might be more susceptible
to physiological changes during the nesting season in comparison with other marine turtle

Salinity tolerances and use of saline environments by freshwater turtles: implications of sea level rise

M Agha, JR Ennen, DS Bower… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… gland controls salt influx in sea turtles. However, the … sea turtles differs. For example, the
gland is almost twice the size of the brain in the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) (…

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

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, …

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 …

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). …