Re-examination of population structure and phylogeography of hawksbill turtles in the wider Caribbean using longer mtDNA sequences.

doi:10.1093/jhered/ess055

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Re-examination of population structure and phylogeography of hawksbill turtles in the wider Caribbean using longer mtDNA sequences.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Leroux Robin A, Dutton Peter H, Abreu-Grobois F Alberto, Lagueux Cynthia J, Campbell Cathi L, Delcroix Eric, Chevalier Johan, Horrocks Julia A, Hillis-Starr Zandy, Troëng Sebastian, Harrison Emma, Stapleton Seth

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Management of the critically endangered hawksbill turtle in the Wider Caribbean (WC) has been hampered by knowledge gaps regarding stock structure. We carried out a comprehensive stock structure re-assessment of 11 WC hawksbill rookeries using longer mtDNA sequences, larger sample sizes (N = 647), and additional rookeries compared to previous surveys. Additional variation detected by 740 bp sequences between...

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Re-examination of population structure and phylogeography of hawksbill turtles in the wider Caribbean using longer mtDNA sequences.

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