Faculty of Engineering, Health, Science and Environment, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia Department of Environment and Conservation, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, WA 6983, Australia;
Faculty of Engineering, Health, Science and Environment, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia.
Vet Rec. 2014 Jun 14;174(24):608. doi: 10.1136/vr.101396. Epub 2014 Mar 27.
In recent years, the use of blood chemistry as a diagnostic tool for sea turtles has been demonstrated, but much of its effectiveness relies on reference intervals. The first comprehensive blood chemistry values for healthy wild hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) sea turtles are presented. Nineteen blood chemistry analytes and packed cell volume were analysed for 40 clinically healthy juvenile hawksbill sea turtles captured from a rocky reef habitat in northern Australia. We used four statistical approaches to calculate reference intervals and to investigate their use with non-normal distributions and small sample sizes, and to compare upper and lower limits between methods. Eleven analytes were correlated with curved carapace length indicating that body size should be considered when designing future studies and interpreting analyte values.
近年来，血液化学分析已被证明可作为海龟的诊断工具，但该方法的有效性在很大程度上取决于参考区间。本研究首次提供了健康野生玳瑁（Eretmochelys imbricata）海龟的全面血液化学值。对从澳大利亚北部岩石礁生境中捕获的 40 只临床健康的幼年玳瑁海龟的 19 种血液化学分析物和红细胞压积进行了分析。我们使用了四种统计方法来计算参考区间，并研究了它们在非正态分布和小样本量下的使用情况，以及比较了不同方法的上下限。有 11 种分析物与弯曲的甲壳长度相关，这表明在设计未来的研究和解释分析物值时应考虑体型因素。
