Introduced delicacy or native species? A natural origin of Bermudian terrapins supported by fossil and genetic data

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 216-219

  Parham, James F ^a,b   Outerbridge, Mark E ^c   Stuart, Bryan L ^b,d   Wingate, David B ^e   Erlenkeuser, Helmut ^f   Papenfuss, Theodore J ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Bermuda Zoological Society   (Bermuda)

^d FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^e Bermuda Zoological Society   (Bermuda)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gulf Stream; Introduced species; Malaclemys terrapin; Mangrove; Radiocarbon; Turtle

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MANGROVE; NATIVE SPECIES; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; TURTLE;

ARTICLE; FOSSIL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; REPTILE; SPECIES; SURVIVAL; TERRAPIN; TURTLE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BERMUDA; GULF STREAM;

EMYDIDAE; MALACLEMYS; MALACLEMYS TERRAPIN; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 40449118262     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0599     Document Type: Article

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