Recent Demographic History and Present Fine-Scale Structure in the Northwest Atlantic Leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) Turtle Population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Molfetti, Érica ^a   Torres Vilaça, Sibelle ^b   Georges, Jean Yves ^c,d   Plot, Virginie ^c,d   Delcroix, Eric ^e   Le Scao, Rozen ^f   Lavergne, Anne ^g   Barrioz, Sébastien ^h   dos Santos, Fabrício Rodrigues ^a   de Thoisy, Benoît ^g,h  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

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

^f Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage   (Martinique)

^g INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LA GUYANE   (French Guiana)

^h Kwata NGO   (French Guiana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELIC RICHNESS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL HUNTING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DEMOGRAPHY; DERMOCHELYS CORIACEA; DNA SEQUENCE; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; GENE FLOW; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; LATE HOLOCENE; METAPOPULATION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MIGRATION; NESTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; REGULATOR GENE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TURTLE; UPPER PLEISTOCENE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BREEDING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TURTLES;

EID: 84874860784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058061     Document Type: Article

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