BACKGROUND Marine turtles of all species are capable of being toxic. On 17 October 2010, health authorities in the Federated States of Micronesia were notified of the sudden death of three children and the sickening of approximately 20 other people on Murilo Atoll in Chuuk State. The illnesses were suspected to be the result of mass consumption of a hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata). An...

Turtle blood flukes belonging to the family Spirorchiidae (Digenea) represent a major threat for sea turtle health and are considered the most important parasitic cause of turtle stranding and mortality worldwide. Despite the large diversity of spirorchiid species found globally, there are only 2 records for free-ranging Mediterranean sea turtles that date back to the late 1800s involving just ...

Molecular analyses of turtle relationships have overturned prevailing morphological hypotheses and prompted the development of a new taxonomy. Here we provide the first genome-scale analysis of turtle phylogeny. We sequenced 2381 ultraconserved element (UCE) loci representing a total of 1,718,154bp of aligned sequence. Our sampling includes 32 turtle taxa representing all 14 recognized turtle f...

www.ecoNomicmobility.org september 2012 As life expectancy increases and retirement income systems evolve, households face an enormous challenge in ensuring a secure retirement. Working more years is often hailed as the best way to increase retirement incomes, especially in the wake of the Great Recession. But some fear that delayed retirement by Baby Boomers reduces the job opportunities for y...

Sea Turtles Sea turtles are one of the oldest extant groups of animals, and they have changed little in basic anatomy for millions of years. Sea turtles are found throughout the world, and depending on the species, range from warm tropical water to frigid oceans near the arctic. They can be herbivores, omnivores, or carnivores and can be quite large. For example, the largest species of sea turt...

Article history: Received 14 September 2005 Received in revised form 10 December 2005 Accepted 19 December 2005 Available online 14 February 2006 There has been a growing concern about the interactions of endangered sea turtles with the pelagic longline fishery in Hawaii recently. Some tough measures including a swordfish harvest ban have been put into effect since 2000 to protect these turtles...

The problem of how to protect sea turtle nests from terrestrial predators is of worldwide concern. On Queensland's southern Sunshine Coast, depredation of turtle nests by the introduced European red fox (Vulpes vulpes) has been recorded as the primary terrestrial cause of egg and hatchling mortality. We investigated the impact of foxes on the nests of the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) and...

Sea turtle is a long-lived marine reptile. The long evolution history of this animal results in great interests to understand its population traits. However, the endangered status of sea turtle prevents us from conducting extensive studies. In spite of great efforts have devoted to the researches on the biology of sea turtle, little progress was achieved for decades. Only in recent years, the a...

P41B-01, 2004. Paganelli F., Lopes R.M., Turtle E.P., Williams D.A., Olympus Mass Movement Study from Mars Global Surveyor and Comparison with Io's Volcanoes and Mountains from Galileo Mission, EOS Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V33C-1482, 2004. McEwen A., Dawson D., Denk T., Helfenstein P., Johnson T., Neukum G., Porco C., Roatsch T., Peter T., Turtle E., Early Cassini Imaging...

Malayan box turtle (Cuora amboinensis) has been a wildlife-protected vulnerable turtle species in Malaysia since 2005. However, because of its purported usage in traditional medicine, tonic foods and feeds, clandestine black market trade is rampant. Several polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays for the taxonomic detection and classification of turtle species have been proposed. These assays ar...