Database of TSD information for reptiles The columns are: * Species: Name de the species in binominal nommenclature * Country: From which country the eggs come from * Area: Name of the beach or region the eggs come from * RMU: For marine turtles, name of the RMU for this population; see Wallace, B.P., DiMatteo, A.D., Hurley, B.J., Finkbeiner, E.M., Bolten, A.B., Chaloupka, M.Y., Hutchinson, B.J., Abreu-Grobois, F.A., Amorocho, D., Bjorndal, K.A., Bourjea, J., Bowen, B.W., Duenas, R.B., Casale, P., Choudhury, B.C., Costa, A., Dutton, P.H., Fallabrino, A., Girard, A., Girondot, M., Godfrey, M.H., Hamann, M., Lopez-Mendilaharsu, M., Marcovaldi, M.A., Mortimer, J.A., Musick, J.A., Nel, R., Seminoff, J.A., Troeng, S., Witherington, B., Mast, R.B., 2010. Regional management units for marine turtles: a novel framework for prioritizing conservation and research across multiple scales. Plos One 5, e15465. * Incubation.temperature: Nominal incubation temperature * Incubation.temperature.Accuracy: What is the accuracy of the measure of temperature * Incubation.temperature.SD: Experimental SD of incubation temperatures * Incubation.temperature.Amplitude: How much the temperature could fluctuate around nominal temperature * Correction.factor: Difference between the incubator temperature and the eggs temperature * IP.min: Shorter incubation period * IP.max: Longer incubation period * IP.mean: Mean incubation periods * IP.SD: Standard deviation for incubation periods * Total: Total number of eggs incubated * Hatched: Number of hatchlings * NotHatched: Number of embryos with development visible but dead during incubation * Undeveloped: Number of embryos showing no development * Intersexes: Number of individuals intersexes or ambiguous for sex phenotype * Males: Number of individuals indentified as males * Females: Number of individuals indentified as females * Sexed: Number of sexed individuals * Clutch: Identity of clutch * Reference: Bibliographic reference * Note: Diverse information for this incubation * Version: Date of the version of this database Initial version of this database has been built by Maria Sousa Martins.
DatabaseTSDA dataframe with raw data.
Database of TSD information for marine turtles
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Castheloge, V.D., de D. dos Santos, M.R., de Castilhos, J.C., de J. Filho, P.R., de C. Gomes, L., Clemente-Carvalho, R.B.G., Ferreira, P.D., 2018. Pivotal temperature and hatcHling sex ratio of olive ridley sea turtles Lepidochelys olivacea from the South Atlantic coast of Brazil. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 13, 488-496.
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Hewavisenthi, S. (1999) Influence of incubation environment on the development of the flatback turtle (Natator depressus). Ph.D. Thesis, Central Queensland University.
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Limpus C.J., Reed P.C. and Miller J.D. (1985) Temperature dependent sex determination in Queensland sea turtles: Intraspecific variation in Caretta caretta. In Grigg G., Shine R. and Ehmann H. (eds) Biology of Australian frogs and reptiles. New South Wales, Australia: Royal Zoological Society, pp 343-351.
Limpus C.J., Reed P. and Miller J.D. (1983) Islands and turtles: the influence of choice of nesting beach on sex ratio. In Baker J.J., Carter R.M., Saurmarco P.W. and Stark K.P. (eds.) Proceedings of the Inaugural Great Barrier Reef Conference, 29 August-2 September, 1983. James Cook University Press of North Queensland, pp. 397-402.
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Lubiana, A.l., J<U+00FA>nior, P.D.F., 2009. Pivotal temperature and sexual dimorphism of Podocnemis expansa hatchlings (Testudines: Podocnemididae) from Bananal Island, Brazil. Zoologia 26, 527-533.
Marcovaldi M.A., Godfrey M.H. and Mrosovsky N. (1997) Estimating sex ratios of loggerhead turtles in Brazil from pivotal incubation temperatures. Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne De Zoologie, 75, 755-770.
McCoy C.J., Vogt R.C. and Censky E.J. (1983) Temperature-controlled sex determination in the sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea. J. Herpetol., 17(4), 404-406.
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Merchant-Larios, H., Villalpando-Fierro, I. & Centeno-Urruiza, B. 1989. Gonadal morphogenesis under controlled temperature in the sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea. Herpetol. Monographs, 3, 43-61.
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Shaver, D.J., 2008. Padre Island National Seashore, Texas sea turtle nesting and stranding 2007 report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service Publication, p. 33.
Shaver, D.J., 2009. Padre Island National Seashore, Texas sea turtle nesting and stranding 2008 report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service Publication, p. 38.
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Yntema C.L. and Mrosovsky N. (1982) Critical periods and pivotal temperatures for sexual differentiation in loggerhead sea turtles. Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne De Zoologie, 60(5), 1012-1016.
Other Functions for temperature-dependent sex determination:
DatabaseTSD.version(),
P_TRT(),
TSP.list,
plot.tsd(),
predict.tsd(),
stages,
tsd_MHmcmc_p(),
tsd_MHmcmc(),
tsd()
# NOT RUN {
library(embryogrowth)
data(DatabaseTSD)
DatabaseTSD.version()
totalIncubation_Lo <- subset(DatabaseTSD,
Species=="Lepidochelys olivacea" & (!is.na(Sexed) & Sexed!=0),
select=c("Males", "Females", "Incubation.temperature"))
tot_Lo <- with(totalIncubation_Lo, tsd(males=Males, females=Females,
temperatures=Incubation.temperature), parameters.initial = c(P=30.5, S=-0.4))
predict(tot_Lo)
# }
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