Publications

growth-related changes in heavy metal accumulation in green turtle (chelonia mydas) from yaeyama islands, okinawa, japan.	concentrations of nine heavy metals (fe, mn, zn, cu, pb, ni, cd, co, and hg) were determined in liver, kidney, and muscle of 50 green turtles (chelonia mydas) collected from yaeyama islands, okinawa, japan, to elucidate growth-related changes in heavy metal accumulation during different growth stage. considerably high cu concentrations were found in the liver of smaller turtles. mean hepatic concentration of cu was 50.2 microg/g wet weight which varied widely (4.27-113 microg/g wet weight). cadm ...	2000	10948289
subcellular distribution of trace elements in the liver of sea turtles.	subcellular distribution of cu, zn, se, rb, mo, ag, cd and pb was determined in the liver of green turtles (chelonia mydas) and hawksbill turtles (eretmochelys imbricata) from yaeyama islands, japan. also, hepatic cytosol from sea turtles was applied on a sephadex g-75 column and elution profiles of trace elements were examined. copper, zn, se, rb, ag and cd were largely present in cytosol in the liver of both species, indicating that cytosol was the significant site for the accumulation of thes ...	2002	12398389
comparative phylogeny and historical perspectives on population genetics of the pacific hawksbill (eretmochelys imbricata) and green turtles (chelonia mydas), inferred from feeding populations in the yaeyama islands, japan.	mitochondrial dna sequence polymorphisms and patterns of genetic diversity represent the genealogy and relative impacts of historical, geographic, and demographic events on populations. in this study, historical patterns of population dynamics and differentiation in hawksbill (eretmochelys imbricata) and green turtles (chelonia mydas) in the pacific were estimated from feeding populations in the yaeyama islands, japan. phylogenetic relationships of the haplotypes indicated that hawksbill and gre ...	2010	20064003