Transpacific migration of a loggerhead turtle monitored by satellite telemetry

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 937-947

  Nichols, Wallace J ^a,d   Resendiz, Antonio ^b   Seminoff, Jeffrey A ^c   Resendiz, Beatrice ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE LA PESCA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d c/o Wildcoast ^*  (United States)

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