Climate change is a threat to marine turtles that is expected to affect all of their life stages. To
guide future research, we conducted a review of the most recent literature on this topic …

A range of abiotic parameters within a reptile nest influence the viability and attributes
(including sex, behaviour and body size) of hatchlings that emerge from that nest. As a result …

Sea turtles are an iconic group of marine megafauna that have been exposed to multiple
anthropogenic threats across their different life stages, especially in the past decades. This …

Marine turtle fibropapillomatosis (FP) is a disease primarily affecting green turtles (Chelonia
mydas) that is characterized by multiple cutaneous masses. In addition, the condition has …

"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

Abstract The fungus Fusarium solani (Mart.) Saccardo (1881) was found to be the cause of
infections in the eggs of the sea turtle species Caretta caretta in Boavista Island, Cape …

Nascent fungal infections are currently considered as one of the main threats for biodiversity
and ecosystem health, and have driven several animal species into critical risk of extinction …

Cleidoic eggs possess very efficient and orchestrated systems to protect the embryo from
external microbes until hatch. The cuticle is a proteinaceous layer on the shell surface in …

The impact of a range of different threats has resulted in the listing of six out of seven sea
turtle species on the IUCN Red List of endangered species. Disease risk analysis (DRA) …

Evidence is accumulating for the widespread occurrence of environmentally cued hatching
(ECH) in animals, but its diversity and distribution across taxa are unknown. Herein I review …