Land Use, Macroalgae, and a tumor-forming disease in Marine Turtles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  van Houtan, Kyle S ^a,b   Hargrove, Stacy K ^a   Balazs, George H ^a  

^a PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; NITROGEN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EUTROPHICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIBROPAPILLOMATOSIS; FORAGING; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOREGULATION; LAND USE; MACROALGA; NITROGEN AVAILABILITY; NONHUMAN; PAPILLOMATOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TUMOR GROWTH; TURTLE; UNITED STATES; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HERPESVIRIDAE; MARINE BIOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PAPILLOMA; SEAWEED; TURTLES;

CHELONIA (GENUS); CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; HERPESVIRIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 77958525871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012900     Document Type: Article

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