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 …

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 …

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 …

Since the first volume of The Biology of Sea Turtles was published in 1997, the field has
grown and matured in ways few of the authors would have predicted—particularly in the …

Postcopulatory sperm storage can serve a range of functions, including ensuring fertility,
allowing delayed fertilization and facilitating sexual selection. Sperm storage is likely to be …

Multiple paternity is extremely common in natural populations of almost all reptiles studied to
date, suggesting that pay-offs from polyandrous mating systems are important in these …

Females of all seven living species of sea turtles are known to be polyandrous and show
multiple paternity. The frequency of multiple paternity varies among species, and among …

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 …

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 …

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) …