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Living together but remaining apart: Atlantic and Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in shared feeding grounds.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Carreras Carlos, Pascual Marta, Cardona Luis, Marco Adolfo, Bellido Juan Jesús, Castillo Juan José, Tomás Jesús, Raga Juan Antonio, Sanfélix Manuel, Fernández Gloria, Aguilar Alex
Abstract excerpt
Juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from Atlantic nesting populations migrate into the western Mediterranean, where they share feeding grounds with turtles originating in the Mediterranean. In this scenario, male-mediated gene flow may lead to the homogenization of these distant populations. To test this hypothesis, we genotyped 7 microsatellites from 56 Atlantic individuals sampled from feeding...
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