Geographic patterns of genetic variation in a broadly distributed marine vertebrate: New insights into loggerhead turtle stock structure from expanded mitochondrial DNA sequences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Shamblin, Brian M ^a,b   Bolten, Alan B ^c   Abreu Grobois, F Alberto ^d   Bjorndal, Karen A ^c   Cardona, Luis ^e   Carreras, Carlos ^e,f   Clusa, Marcel ^e   Monzón Argüello, Catalina ^g   Nairn, Campbell J ^h   Nielsen, Janne T ⁱ   Nel, Ronel ^j   Soares, Luciano S ^c,k   Stewart, Kelly R ^b,l   Vilaça, Sibelle T ^m   Türkozan, Oguz ⁿ   Yilmaz, Can ⁿ   Dutton, Peter H ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

ⁱ University of Miami   (United States)

^j NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^k Projeto TAMAR ICMBio   (Brazil)

^l The Ocean Foundation   (United States)

^m FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

ⁿ ADNAN MENDERES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; CAPE VERDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; INDIAN OCEAN; LOGGERHEAD TURTLE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMAN; REGULATOR GENE; SOUTH AFRICA; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; INDIAN OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURTLES;

EID: 84899870800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085956     Document Type: Article

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