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Bibliography Bonin, B., B. Devaux, & A. Dupré. 2006. Turtles of the World. Translated by P.C.H. Pritchard. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. Büttner, E. 2003. Keeping and breeding the North African helmeted turtle Pelomedusa subrufa olivacea (Schweigger, 1812). Radiata 12(4): 9-14. Ernst, C. H. & R. W. Barbour. 1989. Turtles of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. Ferri, V. 2002. Turtles and Tortoises. Firefly Books, Buffalo, NY. Gurley, R. 2003. Keeping and Breeding Freshwater Turtles. Living Art Publishing, Ada, OK. Pritchard, P.C.H. 1979. Encyclopedia of Turtles. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune, FL. Vetter, H. 2002. Turtles of the World Vol. 1: Africa, Europe and Western Asia. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, Germany.

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Further Reading & Related Research - Full Text Articles Online (this list will continue to be updated) Glass, M., W.W. Burggren, and K. Johansen.1978. Ventilation in an aquatic and terrestrial chelonian reptile. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 72:165-179. PDF available: http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/72/1/165 Grafe, T.U., S.K. Kaminsky, J. H. Bitz, H. Lüssow, and K.E. Linsenmair. 2004. Demographic dynamics of the afro-tropical pig-nosed frog, Hemisus marmoratus: effects of climate and predation on survival and recruitment. Oecologia. 141:40-46. PDF available: http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/SOBS/TEACHING/ecol_04/terrestrial/Grafe%20et%20al%202004.pdf Herrel, A., J.C. O’Reilly, and A.M. Richmond. 2002. Evolution of bite performance in turtles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 15:1083–1094. PDF available: http://webh01.ua.ac.be/funmorph/publications/Herrel%20et%20al%202002%20J%20Evol%20Biol.pdf Krenz, J.G., G.J.P. Naylor, H.B. Shaffer, and F.J. Janzen. 2005. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of turtles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 37:178–191. PDF available: http://www2.eve.ucdavis.edu/shafferlab/pubs/KrenzMolPhyloEvo2005.pdf Luiselli, L. & G.C. Akani. 2003.An indirect assessment of the effects of oil pollution on the diversity and functioning of turtle communities in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation. 26(1):57-65. PDF available: http://www.bcn.es/museuciencies_fitxers/imatges/FitxerContingut1164.pdf Noonan, B.P. 2000. Does the phylogeny of pelomedusoid turtles reflect vicariance due to continental drift? Journal of Biogeography. 27:1245–1249. Available online: http://66.102.1.104/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:NZaYD8l2hFUJ:bnoonan.uta.edu/Researchpage/pelo.pdf+ Parham, J.F., C.R. Feldman, and J.L. Boore. 2006.The complete mitochondrial genome of the enigmatic bigheaded turtle (Platysternon): description of unusual genomic features and the reconciliation of phylogenetic hypotheses based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 6:11. PDF available: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2148-6-11.pdf Zardoya, R. and A. Meyer.1998. Cloning and characterization of a microsatellite in the mitochondrial control region of the African side-necked turtle, Pelomedusa subrufa. Gene 216:149-153. PDF available: http://www.evolutionsbiologie.uni-konstanz.de/pdf1-182/P082.pdf Zardoya, R. and A. Meyer.1998. Complete mitochondrial genome suggests diapsid affinities of turtles. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. Vol 95(24):14226-31. PDF available: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=24355&blobtype=pdf

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