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Conservation genetics of the east Pacific green turtle (Chelonia mydas) in Michoacan, Mexico.
Genetica - 1 Jun 2004
Chassin-Noria Omar, Abreu-Grobois Alberto, Dutton Peter H, Oyama Ken
Abstract excerpt
The main continental nesting rookeries of the east Pacific green turtle (EPGT), Chelonia mydas, on the Michoacan (Mexico) coast suffered drastic population declines following intense exploitation in the 1960s--1970s with annual abundance of nesting females plummeting from about 25,000 to an average of about 1400 between 1982 and 2001. Analyses of data from three nDNA microsatellite loci and 400 bp mtDNA control...
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