Article
Mitogenomic sequences better resolve stock structure of southern Greater Caribbean green turtle rookeries.
Molecular ecology - 1 May 2012
Shamblin Brian M, Bjorndal Karen A, Bolten Alan B, Hillis-Starr Zandy M, Lundgren Ian, Naro-Maciel Eugenia, Nairn Campbell J
Abstract excerpt
Analyses of mitochondrial control region polymorphisms have supported the presence of several demographically independent green turtle (Chelonia mydas) rookeries in the Greater Caribbean region. However, extensive sharing of common haplotypes based on 490-bp control region sequences confounds assessment of the scale of natal homing and population structure among regional rookeries. We screened the majority of the...
Topics
- Animals
- Caribbean Region
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Ecosystem
- Female
- Genetics, Population
- Genome, Mitochondrial
- Haplotypes
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide