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Hematology and plasma chemistry of the ploughshare tortoise (astrochelys yniphora) in a captive breeding program (2017)
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Lopez, J., Waters, M., Routh, A., Rakotonanahary, T., Woolaver, L., Thomasson, A., …Steinmetz, H. (2017). Hematology and plasma chemistry of the ploughshare tortoise (astrochelys yniphora) in a captive breeding program. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 48(1), 102-115. https://doi.org/10.1638/2016-0201.1

Blood samples from 172 captive and 40 wild, healthy, juvenile and adult, ploughshare tortoises (Astrochelys yniphora) were analyzed to determine hematological and biochemical reference intervals. Hematological analytes included packed cell volume (PC... Read More about Hematology and plasma chemistry of the ploughshare tortoise (astrochelys yniphora) in a captive breeding program.