Re-examination of Population Structure and Phylogeography of Hawksbill Turtles in the Wider Caribbean Using Longer mtDNA Sequences

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 806-820

  Leroux, Robin A ^a   Dutton, Peter H ^a   Abreu Grobois, F Alberto ^b   Lagueux, Cynthia J ^c   Campbell, Cathi L ^d   Delcroix, Eric ^a   Chevalier, Johan ^e   Horrocks, Julia A ^f   Hillis Starr, Zandy ^g   Troëng, Sebastian ^h   Harrison, Emma ⁱ   Stapleton, Seth ^j  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c Wildlife Conservation Society   (Nicaragua)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^e Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage   (Guadeloupe)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^g NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^h Conservation International ^*  (United States)

ⁱ Sea Turtle Conservancy   (Costa Rica)

^j Jumby Bay Hawksbill Project   (Antigua and Barbuda)

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Author keywords

conservation genetics; Eretmochelys imbricata; management units; mitochondrial DNA; sea turtle; stock structure

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CENTRAL AMERICA; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAWKSBILL TURTLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN REGION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GUADELOUPE; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; TURTLES;

CHELONIIDAE; ERETMOCHELYS IMBRICATA;

EID: 84870192111     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/ess055     Document Type: Article

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