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Sex Differences and the Heritability of Scute Pattern Abnormalities in the Green Sea Turtle from the Ogasawara Archipelago, Japan.
Zoological science - 1 Aug 2017
Kobayashi Shohei, Morimoto Yukari, Kondo Satomi, Sato Takayuki, Suganuma Hiroyuki, Arai Katsuhiko, Watanabe Gen
Abstract excerpt
Although scute pattern abnormalities in sea turtle species are considered to be strongly correlated with survival rate, there is little information available regarding these abnormalities and the primary cause for their development is unclear. For the conservation of sea turtle species, accumulating basic knowledge of scute pattern abnormalities is a fundamental step towards a better understanding of the causes...
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