| emendation and new species of hapalorhynchus stunkard, 1922 (digenea: schistosomatoidea) from musk turtles (kinosternidae: sternotherus) in alabama and florida rivers. | hapalorhynchus stunkard, 1922 is emended based on morphological study of existing museum specimens (type and voucher specimens) and newly-collected specimens infecting musk turtles (testudines: kinosternidae: sternotherus spp.) from rivers in alabama and florida (usa). hapalorhynchus conecuhensis n. sp. is described from an innominate musk turtle, sternotherus cf. minor, (type host) from blue spring (31°5'27.64″n, 86°30'53.21″w; pensacola bay basin, alabama) and the loggerhead musk turtle, stern ... | 2017 | 28893635 |
| a comparison of mtdna restriction sites vs. control region sequences in phylogeographic assessment of the musk turtle (sternotherus minor). | a total of nearly 800 base pairs of mitochondrial dna sequence was assayed in each of 52 musk turtles (sternotherus minor) collected across the species' range in the south-eastern usa. about one-half of the sequence information in effect was accessed by conventional recognition-site assays of the entire mtdna molecule; the remainder came from direct sequence assays of a normally hypervariable 5' section of the noncoding control region. the two assay methods produced essentially nonoverlapping se ... | 1995 | 7663753 |
| ontogenetic changes in jaw-muscle architecture facilitate durophagy in the turtle sternotherus minor. | differential scaling of musculoskeletal traits leads to differences in performance across ontogeny and ultimately determines patterns of resource use during development. because musculoskeletal growth of the feeding system facilitates high bite-force generation necessary to overcome the physical constraints of consuming more durable prey, durophagous taxa are well suited for investigations of the scaling relationships between musculoskeletal growth, bite-force generation and dietary ontogeny. to ... | 2011 | 21525311 |
| sex-based trade-offs in the innate and acquired immune systems of sternotherus minor. | longevity patterns in most vertebrates suggest that females benefit most from maintenance investment. a reversed longevity pattern in loggerhead musk turtles (sternotherus minor) allowed us to test trade-offs between maintenance and survivorship. we tested the hypothesis that the sex with greater longevity has greater maintenance than the sex with shorter longevity. we also compared the following parameters between sexes: bactericidal ability (ba) and heterophil:lymphocyte ratios (hlr). baseline ... | 2020 | 33075211 |
| serum levels of urea and inorganic phosphorus in the loggerhead musk turtle, sternotherus minor minor. | | 1975 | 237724 |
| egg components and hatchling lipid reserves: parental investment in kinosternid turtles from the southeastern united states. | we measured egg components and pre-ovulatory parental investment in kinosternid turtles (kinosternon baurii, kinosternon subrubrum, sternotherus minor, and sternotherus odoratus) from the southeastern usa. allocation patterns were determined by comparing lipid content of eggs and hatchlings, to determine whether females of species with hatchlings that exhibit a delayed nest-emergence strategy: (1) allocate higher proportions of energy storage lipids to eggs, (2) produce hatchlings with higher le ... | 1998 | 9787783 |
| structure of shells from eggs of kinosternid turtles. | shells from eggs of five species of kinosternid turtle (sternotherus minor, kinosternon flavescens, k. baurii, k. hirtipes, and k. alamosae) were examined with light and scanning electron microscopy. except for possible differences among species in thickness of eggshells, structure of shells from all eggs was similiar. in general, kinosternid turtles lay eggs having a rigid calcareous layer composed of calcium carbonate in the form of aragonite. the calcareous layer is organized into individual ... | 1984 | 30029564 |