{"id":744,"date":"2012-07-11T15:07:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T15:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=744"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:50:08","slug":"summer-research-on-possible-virusherbicide-interactions-in-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2012\/07\/11\/summer-research-on-possible-virusherbicide-interactions-in-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer research on possible virus\/herbicide interactions in turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/07\/Lab-pics-A.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-745\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/07\/Lab-pics-A-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Francis Polakiewicz\u00a0 (&#8217;14) and Dr. Rachel Goodman recently wrapped up an experiment investigating interactions between chemical exposure and a wildlife disease on the health and survival of turtles.\u00a0 The two were awarded a Hampden-Sydney Student Faculty Summer Research grant for the project, and Polakiewicz\u00a0 was also awarded a Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges Summer Undergraduate Science Research Fellowship Award.\u00a0 In their experiment, juvenile red-eared slider turtles were exposed to combinations of the emerging infectious disease ranavirus and four commonly used herbicides: Roundup, ShoreKlear, 2,4-D, and Atrazine.\u00a0 Polakiewicz\u00a0 and Dr. Goodman studied the growth and survival of turtles in these treatments for 5 weeks. \u00a0Collaborator Dr. Debra Miller at the University of Tennessee Knoxville is currently examining tissues for evidence of infection and organ deterioration.\u00a0 Results of this study will help determine why some wild turtle populations carry the virus symptomatically, while others experience virus-associated dieoffs.\u00a0 If certain herbicides cause increased morbidity and mortality, this information could inform application practices of land managers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_746\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/07\/Lab-pics-B.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-746\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-746\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/07\/Lab-pics-B-300x147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turtle showing swollen neck, a symptom of ranavirus infection<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Polakiewicz\u00a0 (&#8217;14) and Dr. Rachel Goodman recently wrapped up an experiment investigating interactions between chemical exposure and a wildlife disease on the health and survival of turtles.\u00a0 The two were awarded a Hampden-Sydney Student Faculty Summer Research grant for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2012\/07\/11\/summer-research-on-possible-virusherbicide-interactions-in-turtles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}