Phylogeography, genetic diversity, and management units of hawksbill turtles in the indo-pacific

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 199-213

  Vargas, Sarah M ^a,b   Jensen, Michael P ^c   Ho, Simon Y W ^b   Mobaraki, Asghar ^d   Broderick, Damien ^e   Mortimer, Jeanne A ^f   Whiting, Scott D ^g,n   Miller, Jeff ^h   Prince, Robert I T ⁱ   Bell, Ian P ^j   Hoenner, Xavier ^k   Limpus, Colin J ^g   Santos, Fabrício R ^l   Fitzsimmons, Nancy N ^m  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

^d Department of Environment   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^g Department of Land Resource Management ^*  (Australia)

^h Biological Research and Education Consultants   (United States)

ⁱ Marine Science Program   (Australia)

^j Marine Turtle Conservation Threatened Species Unit   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^l FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^m QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

ⁿ Marine Science Program   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Marine conservation; Marine turtles; Mitochondrial DNA; Population genetic structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ERETMOCHELYS IMBRICATA; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TURTLE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURTLES;

EID: 84964749460     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esv091     Document Type: Article

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