Despite the importance of maternal effects in evolution, and knowledge of links among nest
site choice, timing of nesting, offspring sex, and reproductive success in animals with …

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 …

Microsatellite DNA was used to determine paternity in loggerhead turtle clutches. Hatchlings
from three clutches were genotyped at two loci, as were their mothers and a sample of …

Because the sex of all sea turtle hatchlings is determined by incubation temperature, with
low temperatures producing mainly males and high temperatures producing mainly females …

For vertebrates with temperature-dependent sex determination, primary (or hatchling) sex
ratios are often skewed, an issue of particular relevance to concerns over effects of climate …

Ecological and genetic studies of marine turtles generally support the hypothesis of natal
homing, but leave open the question of the geographical scale of genetic exchange and the …

We used multilocus minisatellite DNA fingerprinting to examine the local genetic structure
within nesting populations of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Tortuguero, Costa Rica and …

We re-sequenced 815 bp of the mtDNA of loggerhead turtles from a population nesting in
Calabria (southern Italy), which was found recently. Non-invasive sampling was applied and …

We introduce an approach for the analysis of Mendelian polymorphisms in nuclear DNA
(nDNA), using restriction fragment patterns from anonymous single-copy regions amplified …

As evidenced by the articles in this volume, a recent increase in interest in the mating
systems of poikilothermic vertebrates has focused primarily on fishes, a few amphibians, and …