The past year has seen a further marshaling of genetic evidence for 'natal homing'in several
species of marine turtles, a phenomenon wherein females, upon reaching sexual maturity …

Abstract The Cape Verde Islands harbour the second largest nesting aggregation of the
globally endangered loggerhead sea turtle in the Atlantic. To characterize the unknown …

The nesting beaches of the southeastern US are appropriate for examining regional
population structure. This area hosts one of the largest nesting aggregates in the world …

The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is a federally threatened species and listed as
endangered by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). We describe primers and polymerase …

Effective management of marine species has been challenging in part because of the cryptic
nature of diverse life stages and the complexity of aquatic dispersal that is mediated by …

Brian W. Bowen arine turtles have inhabited the oceans for at least 100 million years, and
they have developed remarkable solutions to the challenges of survival. Recent research …

Since the first volume of The Biology of Sea Turtles was published in 1997, the field has
grown and matured in ways few of the authors would have predicted—particularly in the …

Juvenile loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) have recently been documented in the vicinity
of Baja California and thousands of these animals have been captured in oceanic fisheries …

Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) that nest on Ascension Island, in the south-central Atlantic,
utilize feeding grounds along the coast of Brazil, more than 2000 km away. To account for …