The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service observes Desert Tortoise Conservation Week during the first week of October. This week-long ...

They utilized the known genome of Gopherus evgoodei, the "Sinaloan thorn scrub tortoise," native to the United States and Mexico deserts. If the DNA double helix is imagined as a spiral staircase ...

Shelters from fire and cold are important microhabitats for the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, which sometimes shelters in the burrows of the imperiled gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus). RANGE: ...

Boarman et al. (1998) used an automated reading antenna to show that desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii), a threatened species (IUCN 1996), were making good use of storm culverts built under ...

We focus our efforts on the tortoise species complex that occurs in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, currently recognized as Gopherus agassizii, Gopherus morafkai, and Gopherus ...