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Tortoises

Demography, commonly recorded disorders and mortality in chelonia under UK primary veterinary care: A VetCompass study

Jessica May Hornby, Joanna Hedley, Dave C. Brodbelt, David B. Church, Dan G. O’Neill

published 09 Apr 2025

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Taking advantage of reference-guided assembly in a slowly-evolving lineage: Application to Testudo graeca

Andrea Mira-Jover, Eva Graciá, Andrés Giménez, Uwe Fritz, Roberto Carlos Rodríguez-Caro, Yann Bourgeois

published 09 Aug 2024

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Body condition scoring facilitates healthcare monitoring in Hermann’s Tortoises (Testudo hermanni ssp.)

Julia Frankenberger, Jean-Marie Ballouard, Sebastien Caron, Yury Zablotski, Petra Kölle

published 18 Apr 2024

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Venous blood gases and electrolyte values of captive red foot tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonarius)

Sofia Silva La Rocca de Freitas, Laís Velloso Garcia, Jairo Antonio Melo dos Santos, Líria Queiroz Luz Hirano

published 15 Mar 2024

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Move it or lose it: Predicted effects of culverts and population density on Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) connectivity

Kirsten E. Dutcher, Kenneth E. Nussear, Jill S. Heaton, Todd C. Esque, Amy G. Vandergast

published 28 Sep 2023

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Online classified adverts reflect the broader United Kingdom trade in turtles and tortoises rather than drive it

Jon Bielby, Andy Ferguson, Matthew Rendle, Kirsten M. McMillan

published 13 Jul 2023

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Toad zoonyms mirror the linguistic and demographic history of Greece

Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou, Leonidas Embirikos

published 29 Mar 2023

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Habitat use by female desert tortoises suggests tradeoffs between resource use and risk avoidance

Melia G. Nafus, Jacob A. Daly, Tracey D. Tuberville, A. Peter Klimely, Kurt A. Buhlmann, Brian D. Todd

published 19 Aug 2022

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Hematology and biochemistry of critically endangered radiated tortoises (Astrochelys radiata): Reference intervals in previously confiscated subadults and variability based on common techniques

Maris Brenn-White, Bonnie L. Raphael, Ny Aina Tiana Rakotoarisoa, Sharon L. Deem

published 14 Mar 2022

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Abundance or stress? Faunal exploitation patterns and subsistence strategies: The case study of Brush Hut 1 at Ohalo II, a submerged 23,000-year-old camp in the Sea of Galilee, Israel

Tikvah Steiner, Rebecca Biton, Dani Nadel, Florent Rivals, Rivka Rabinovich

published 26 Jan 2022

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Mycoplasma agassizii, an opportunistic pathogen of tortoises, shows very little genetic variation across the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts

Agusto Luzuriaga-Neira, Franziska C. Sandmeier, Chava L. Weitzman, C. Richard Tracy, Shalyn N. Bauschlicher, Richard L. Tillett, David Alvarez-Ponce

published 03 Feb 2021

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Protected areas network is not adequate to protect a critically endangered East Africa Chelonian: Modelling distribution of pancake tortoise, Malacochersus tornieri under current and future climates

Abraham Eustace, Luíz Fernando Esser, Rudolf Mremi, Patrick K. Malonza, Reginald T. Mwaya

published 20 Jan 2021

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Immune and sex-biased gene expression in the threatened Mojave desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii

Cindy Xu, Greer A. Dolby, K. Kristina Drake, Todd C. Esque, Kenro Kusumi

published 26 Aug 2020

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