Climate change and marine turtles: recent advances and future directions

AR Patrício, LA Hawkes, JR Monsinjon… - Endangered Species …, 2021 - int-res.com
Climate change is a threat to marine turtles that is expected to affect all of their life stages. To
guide future research, we conducted a review of the most recent literature on this topic …

Advances in the application of genetics in marine turtle biology and conservation

LM Komoroske, MP Jensen, KR Stewart… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Marine turtles migrate across long distances, exhibit complex life histories, and occupy
habitats that are difficult to observe. These factors present substantial challenges to …

Turtles in Malaysia: A review of conservation status and a call for research

MH Mohd Salleh, Y Esa, SM Salleh, SA Mohd Sah - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Turtles are threatened all over the world. Malaysia has 24 species of
turtles. This review focuses on current conservation status and some requirements for …

Phylogeography, genetic diversity, and management units of hawksbill turtles in the Indo-Pacific

SM Vargas, MP Jensen, SYW Ho, A Mobaraki… - Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) populations have experienced global decline
because of a history of intense commercial exploitation for shell and stuffed taxidermied …

A review of patterns of multiple paternity across sea turtle rookeries

PLM Lee, G Schofield, RI Haughey, AD Mazaris… - Advances in marine …, 2018 - Elsevier
Why females would mate with multiple partners and have multiple fathers for clutches or
litters is a long-standing enigma. There is a broad dichotomy in hypotheses ranging from …

Breeding Sex Ratios in Adult Leatherback Turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) May Compensate for Female-Biased Hatchling Sex Ratios

KR Stewart, PH Dutton - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Strong male‐biased operational sex ratio in a breeding population of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) inferred by paternal genotype reconstruction analysis

JA Lasala, JS Harrison, KL Williams… - Ecology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Characterization of a species mating systems is fundamental for understanding the
natural history and evolution of that species. Polyandry can result in the multiple paternity of …

Reconstructed paternal genotypes reveal variable rates of multiple paternity at three rookeries of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in Western Australia

JN Tedeschi, NJ Mitchell, O Berry… - Australian Journal of …, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
Female sea turtles are promiscuous, with clutches of eggs often sired by multiple males and
rates of multiple paternity varying greatly within and across species. We investigated levels …

Genetic variation, multiple paternity, and measures of reproductive success in the critically endangered hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)

BI González‐Garza, A Stow… - Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico contains some of the largest breeding groups of
the globally distributed and critically endangered hawksbill turtle (E retmochelys imbricata) …

Operational sex ratio estimated from drone surveys for a species threatened by climate warming

MN Staines, CE Smith, CA Madden Hof, DT Booth… - Marine Biology, 2022 - Springer
Rising sand temperatures resulting from climate warming may cause the 'feminization'of sea
turtle populations, which have temperature-dependent sex determination. In July and …