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Annexe III<br />
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Husbandry, hatchling size and sex i<strong>de</strong>ntification<br />
After emergence, turtles were maintained in the humidified cup until total absorption of yolk.<br />
Hatchlings were then weighed to the nearest 0.001 g on an electronic Sartorius balance and<br />
individually marked by shell notching. Approximately 15-20 days after hatching, turtles were<br />
housed un<strong>de</strong>r standardized conditions in plastic tubs (60 cm long × 40 cm wi<strong>de</strong> × 30 cm high)<br />
filled with 4 cm of water, in an air-conditioned room. Juveniles were randomly distributed<br />
among tubs, with a <strong>de</strong>nsity of approximately 15 hatchlings per tub. Ambient temperature was<br />
maintained at 28°C, while water temperature varied between 22 and 23°C. Basking sites were<br />
placed in the tubs to allow thermoregulation. PowerSun UV lamps (Zoo Med laboratories<br />
Inc., San Luis Obispo, CA, USA) offered the appropriate intensity of UVB, UVA, heat and<br />
visible light with respect of photoperiod (10:14 L:D). Turtles were fed twice a week ad<br />
libitum with Hatchling Aquatic Turtle Food (Zoo Med laboratories Inc., San Luis Obispo,<br />
CA, USA). Tubs were cleaned two hours after each feeding. During 15 months, hatchlings<br />
were weighted approximately every two months. After this period, all juveniles were sacrified<br />
and sex was <strong>de</strong>termined a posteriori by dissection and microscopic observation of gonad<br />
morphology (Pieau, 1972; Yntema, 1976). Juveniles with an in<strong>de</strong>terminate sex phenotype<br />
(n=12) were removed from statistical analyses.<br />
Statistical analyses<br />
All data were tested for normality (Kolmogorov-Smirnov) and for homogeneity (Bartlett’s<br />
test) prior to further statistical analysis. We used a mixed linear mo<strong>de</strong>l to analyze normally<br />
distributed data and a generalized mixed mo<strong>de</strong>l for not normally distributed data. Statistical<br />
analyses were performed using SAS for windows version 9.1 (SAS institute Inc., Cary, NC,<br />
USA, 2003).<br />
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