… structure of green turtle rookeries throughout the Atlantic and to mixed stock analyses of
green turtle … Research efforts should be directed to sampling previously unsampled rookeries …

… genetic composition of Brazilian loggerhead rookeries and … populations to understand the
genetic structure of rookeries and to … for the colonization of the Brazilian loggerhead rookeries. …

… turtles, we assayed mitochondrial (mt) DNA genotypes from 226 specimens representing 15
major rookeries … in mind, we conducted the following global survey of green turtle rookeries. …

… In the subadult stage, turtles tend to recruit to neritic feeding habitat in the vicinity of their
natal rookery, inducing low but significant population structure. In the adult turtles, females (and …

… (nesting aggregations) including the Atlantic rookeries of green turtles, Chelonia … population
structure is attributed to natal homing in female turtles that limits gene flow among rookeries. …

… rookeries from the eastern coast of USA using microsatellite loci. Since we found no significant
population structure … Verde is one panmictic population composed of several rookeries. …

… But we observed more sharing of mtDNA genotypes among loggerhead rookeries than was
observed in green turtles, a fact reflected in somewhat higher estimates of mean migration …

… Novel polymorphism identified in this study was highly informative with respect to regional
population structure. The conserved mitogenomic variant CM-A5.1.1 was found in all four …

… rookeries are impacted by this mortality. The genetic markers generated in this study can be
used to identify rookery … of commercial fisheries on loggerhead turtles (Bolten et al. 1998). …

… of green turtle lineages? An earlier survey of green turtle population structure with mtDNA
… Only three pairs of rookeries could not be differentiated in the present study. This can be …