… Second, the mtDNA data sugcryptodire families do indicate that marine turtles are monophyletic
(… The molecular phylogenetic data from this study genetically distinct populations for …

… One motivation for this study is to clarify marine turtle phylogeny in … molecular phylogeny
is used to decipher the evolutionary origin of an unusual dietary habit of the hawksbill turtle…

… To address the lingering controversies and to recover a definitive marine turtle phylogeny, …
recognized marine turtle species, the taxonomically ambiguous Eastern Pacific green turtle, …

… phylogenies and geographic origin of samples in most taxa, we found evidence of more
recent dispersal events in the loggerhead and olive ridley turtles, … We performed phylogenetic …

… all but two turtle genera are represented in our phylogeny, our … in turtles or the ancient
biogeographical distribution of turtles. … a molecular phylogeny of South Asian softshell turtles (Rep- …

… We demonstrate that this gene is also valuable for understanding phylogenetic relationships
among turtles and for revealing schisms between the models underlying the main methods …

… phylogenetic analyses of both molecular and morphological data for the 23 major lineages
of living turtles … characters contained similar phylogenetic information, although each …

… To calculate selective pressures acting only on the sea turtle lineage from chelonian phylogeny
we performed branch-site models using codeML, FITMODEL, and aBSREL. The branch-…

… marine turtles relative to extant, non-marine … the molecular phylogenetic topology is more
plausible than the morphological topology. In this way, the genetic data from the modern turtle …

… about 18% of the extant world turtle diversity (Ernst and Barbour, 1989, Uetz, 2005).
Testudinids are the most broadly distributed non-marine turtle family, occurring on all subpolar …