Genetic composition, population structure and phylogeography of the loggerhead sea turtle: Colonization hypothesis for the Brazilian rookeries

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1467-1477

  Reis, E C ^a   Soares, L S ^b   Vargas, S M ^c   Santos, F R ^c   Young, R J ^d   Bjorndal, K A ^e   Bolten, A B ^e   Lobo Hajdu G ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Fundacao Centro Brasileiro de Protecao e Pesquisa das Tartarugas Marinhas   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caretta caretta; Conservation genetics; Mitochondrial DNA; Mixed stock analysis; Phylogeography; Population structure

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; COAST; COLONIZATION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NESTING; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TURTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; BRAZIL CURRENT;

ANIMALIA; CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 77953959876     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-9975-0     Document Type: Article

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