Genetic Structure Of Florida Green Turtle Rookeries As Indicated By Mitochondrial Dna Control Region Sequences

• Main Authors: Shamblin, Brian M., Bagley, Dean A., Ehrhart, Llewellyn M., Desjardin, Nicole A., Martin, R. Erik
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: STARS 2015
• Subjects: Chelonia mydas; Haplotype; Mitochondrial DNA; Population structure; Sea turtle; Jupiter; Jupiter Island; Hutchinson Island
• Online Access: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2015/1093

Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nesting has increased dramatically in Florida over the past two decades, ranking the Florida nesting aggregation among the largest in the Greater Caribbean region. Individual beaches that comprise several hundred kilometers of Florida’s east coast and Keys support tens...