Literature use

This post and a few to follow will take a look at a few of the articles that are posted on Todd's web page. All of the articles that are listed there are collaborative efforts with at least three colleagues contributing. The first article is Ontogeny of Entergetics in Leatherback and Olive Ridley Sea Turtle Hatchlings. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology: Part A 147(2):313-322. I hope to explore the possibility of a pattern in their literature use and to list the different disciplines that they call upon to back up their data.

The article includes (44) references:
Not surprisingly, biology and physiology and zoology are the leaders in terms of being quoted. The Biology of Sea Turtles is referenced (7) times (from both a CRC Press text and Smithsonian magazine).
The journal Copeia is referenced (5) times. This journal is published by the American Society of Ichthyologists (the branch of zoology that studies fish) & Herpetologists (the branch of zoology that studies amphibians and reptiles).

Other zoological publications include: Journal of Zoology, Herpetological Journal, Physiological Zoology, Physiological & Biochemical Zoology, Journal of Herpetology and Zoology.

Other publications were used to study the physiological, biological, and simply put, the life of these special turtles. Energy transformation and metabolism was referenced from Animal Physiology, Journal of Comparative Physiology, Bioscience, Animal Behavior, Nature, Mechanism & Process in Physiological Evolution (text), Journal of Animal Science, Biology of the Reptilia (text), Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology, Journal of Experimental Biology, and my favorite, a skeletochronological analysis of the age and growth in leatherback turtles found in the journal Chelonian Conservation and Biology.

Other sources include: Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory, Marine Turtle Newsletter, a Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology & Conservation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics and the Royal Society of London Proceedings.

So we see that the group used a tremendous amount of various journals, texts and other sources across a variety of sub-divisions. I doubt that historically these disciplines have been working in isolation from one another but instead rely on each other for their expertise in the various academic disciplines.