Patterns of genetic diversity in the critically endangered Central American river turtle: Human influence since the Mayan age?

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1229-1242

  González Porter, Gracia P ^a,b   Hailer, Frank ^a   Flores Villela, Oscar ^b   García Anleu, Rony ^c   Maldonado, Jesús E ^a,d  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c Wildlife Conservation Society Guatemala Program   (Guatemala)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dermatemydidae; Dermatemys mawii; Freshwater turtles; Mitochondrial DNA; Population genetic structure

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUATIC ORGANISM; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DIVERGENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE FLOW; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HARVESTING; HISTORICAL TIME (HUMAN HISTORY); MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TURTLE;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; DERMATEMYDIDAE; DERMATEMYS; DERMATEMYS MAWII; TESTUDINES;

EID: 80052485965     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-011-0225-x     Document Type: Article

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