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The interplay of homing and dispersal in green turtles: a focus on the southwestern atlantic.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Naro-Maciel Eugenia, Bondioli Ana Cristina Vigliar, Martin Meredith, de Pádua Almeida Antônio, Baptistotte Cecília, Bellini Claudio, Marcovaldi Maria Ângela, Santos Armando José Barsante, Amato George
Abstract excerpt
Current understanding of spatial ecology is insufficient in many threatened marine species, failing to provide a solid basis for conservation and management. To address this issue for globally endangered green turtles, we investigated their population distribution by sequencing a mitochondrial control region segment from the Rocas Atoll courtship area (n = 30 males) and four feeding grounds (FGs) in Brazil (n =...
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