Living together but remaining apart: Atlantic and mediterranean loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in shared feeding grounds

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 666-677

  Carreras, Carlos ^a,b   Pascual, Marta ^a   Cardona, Luis ^a   Marco, Adolfo ^a,b   Bellido, Juan Jesús ^c   Castillo, Juan José ^c   Tomás, Jesús ^d   Raga, Juan Antonio ^d   Sanfélix, Manuel ^e   Fernández, Gloria ^f   Aguilar, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c Centro de Recuperación de Especies Marinas de Andalucía   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^f Aspro Ocio Foundation   (Spain)

Author keywords

gene flow; isolation; microsatellite DNA; mitochondrial DNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DETERMINATION; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MATING; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NESTING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TURTLE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TURTLES;

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 80054894709     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esr089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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