On 5 September 1999 a juvenile sea turtle (BLA-428) was captured near Bahía de los
Angeles, Gulf of California, Mexico. The presence of intermediate morphological …

Reports of hybridization between marine turtle species (family Cheloniidae) have been
difficult to authenticate based solely on morphological evidence. Here we employ molecular …

Hybridization among sea turtle species has been widely reported in the Atlantic Ocean, but
their detection in the Pacific Ocean is limited to just two individual hybrid turtles, in the …

Hybridization of the box turtles Terrapene carolina and T. ornata has been reported
throughout their sympatric range. Herein, eight polymorphic microsatellite loci and one …

Surprisingly, a high frequency of interspecific sea turtle hybrids has been previously
recorded in a nesting site along a short stretch of the Brazilian coast. Mitochondrial DNA …

Abstract The Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) principally occupies tropical and subtropical
waters, although juveniles are known to occur seasonally in temperate coastal waters …

Sea turtles are migratory species with wide geographical distributions, usually spanning
multiple countries. This characteristic, along with their complex life cycle, makes sea turtle …

Field surveys in Taiwan have uncovered turtles presumed to be hybrids based on their
intermediate morphology. We sequenced a mitochondrial (ND4) and nuclear (R35) gene of …

The seven species of sea turtles occupy a diversity of niches, and have a history tracing
back over 100 million years, yet all share basic life‐history features, including exceptional …

A diet analysis was conducted on the gastrointestinal contents of 10 oceanic green turtles,
Chelonia mydas, collected as bycatch mortalities in pelagic fisheries. Size distribution of the …