Multiple distant origins for green sea turtles aggregating off gorgona island in the colombian eastern pacific

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Amorocho, Diego F ^a,b   Abreu Grobois, F Alberto ^c   Dutton, Peter H ^d   Reina, Richard D ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Research Center for Environmental Management and Development   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHELONIA MYDAS; CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DENATURATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TURTLE; ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ANIMALIA; CHELONIA (GENUS); CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; TURTLES;

EID: 84856413232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031486     Document Type: Article

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