Transatlantic developmental migrations of loggerhead sea turtles demonstrated by mtDNA sequence analysis

Ecological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-7

  Bolten, Alan B ^a,b   Bjorndal, Karen A ^a,b   Martins, Helen R ^c   Dellinger, Thomas ^d   Biscoito, Manuel J ^e   Encalada, Sandra E ^a   Bowen, Brian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Dept of Oceanography and Fisheries ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

^e Museu Municipal do Funchal   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Azores; Caretta caretta; Conservation genetics; Genetic markers; Madeira; Marine turtles; Migration; Mitochondrial DNA sequencing; Mixed stock analysis; Population structure; Regional management

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC REPTILE; LOGGERHEAD; MIGRATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NESTING COLONY;

(NORTH); (SOUTHEAST); ATLANTIC; AZORES; MADEIRA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEXICO; QUINTANA ROO STATE; USA;

CARETTA CARETTA;

EID: 0031950771     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[0001:TDMOLS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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