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 …

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

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 …

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

A high priority in the conservation of marine turtles is the identification of breeding
populations, their geographic range and the effects of human caused mortality upon these …

Marine chelonians have inhabited the earth for over 100 million years, since the Cretaceous
(Hirayama, 1998) and the fossil record reveals that four families were established during this …

The study of turtle population genetics has come a long way in the past few decades. In the
early 1990s, technologies such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and automated DNA …

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

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 …