Nonmodal scutes patterns in the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta): A possible epigenetic effect?

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 379-383

  Caracappa, S ^a   Pisciotta, A ^b   Persichetti, M F ^a   Caracappa, G ^a   Alduina, R ^b   Arculeo, M ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA SICILIA A MIRRI   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento STEBICEF   (Italy)

Author keywords

Caretta caretta; Cytosine methylation; Epigenetics; Loggerhead sea turtle; Mediterranean sea; Nonmodal scutes

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METHYLATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; TURTLE;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SICILY;

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84966593808     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: 14803283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2015-0248     Document Type: Article

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