Investigations on the red-eared slider turtle, Trachemys scripta elegans Tucker, J. K., N. I. Filoramo, F. J. Janzen, G. C. Packard, and G. L. Paukstis. 1998. Investigations on the red-eared slider turtle, Trachemys scripta elegans. Reprinted by U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin, March 1999. LTRMP 99-R004. 30 pp. (NTIS #PB99-140196) ABSTRACT This publication contains reprints of articles on the red-eared slider turtle Trachemys scripta elegans that originally appeared in the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 1998(2):488 492, Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 33:171 177, Canadian Journal of Zoology 76:377 380, and Journal of Herpetology 32(3):431 434, 32:124 128, and 32(2)294 298. KEYWORDS Carapace, Illinois, kyphosis, overwinter survivorship, red-eared slider turtle, soil freezing, Trachemys scripta, turtles