The genetic structure of the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) in the Mediterranean as revealed by nuclear and mitochondrial DNA and its conservation implications

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 761-775

  Carreras, C ^a,b   Pascual, M ^a   Cardona, L ^a   Aguilar, A ^a   Margaritoulis, D ^c   Rees, A ^c   Turkozan, O ^d   Levy, Y ^e,f   Gasith, A ^f   Aureggi, M ^g   Khalil, M ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c Solomou   (Greece)

^d ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e Israel Nature and Parks Authority and Israel Electric Corporation   (Israel)

^f TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^g Naucrates   (Italy)

^h MEDASSET   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Caretta caretta; Genetic structure; Mediterranean; Microsatellite DNA; Mitochondrial DNA

Indexed keywords

GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TURTLE;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 34547137368     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-006-9224-8     Document Type: Article

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