Genetic Paternity and Mating Systems............................................................ 296 General
Background............................................................................. 296 Synopsis of Pre-1996 Genetic …

Marine turtles migrate across long distances, exhibit complex life histories, and occupy
habitats that are difficult to observe. These factors present substantial challenges to …

Powerful molecular techniques have been developed over many decades for resolving
genetic relationships, population genetic structure, patterns of gene flow, mating systems …

Genetic techniques are increasingly being used to study the biology and conservation of sea
turtles (see review in Bowen, 1995). Earlier, such studies were hampered by the need to …

Since the first volume of The Biology of Sea Turtles (Lutz and Musick, 1997), studies using
molecular techniques to address a variety of questions about sea turtle biology and life …

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 …

Freshwater and terrestrial turtles are among the most imperilled biota on the planet, with
over half of all extant taxa threatened with extinction. Active science-based management is …

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 …

Molecular methods are a powerful complement to traditional field practices in illuminating
the evolution and ecology of turtles. We illustrate how standard approaches such as DNA …

Based on a thorough review of the literature, we provide a bibliography of papers featuring
phylogenetic hypotheses for living turtles, a composite tree of all turtle species based on …