Temperature‐dependent sex determination in sea turtles in the context of climate change: uncovering the adaptive significance

P Santidrián Tomillo, JR Spotila - BioEssays, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The adaptive significance of temperature‐dependent sex determination (TSD) in reptiles
remains unknown decades after TSD was first identified in this group. Concurrently, there is …

Population viability of sea turtles in the context of global warming

AS Maurer, JA Seminoff, CA Layman, SP Stapleton… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Sea turtles present a model for the potential impacts of climate change on imperiled species,
with projected warming generating concern about their persistence. Various sea turtle life …

Short-term gain, long-term loss: How a widely-used conservation tool could further threaten sea turtles

PS Tomillo, BP Wallace, FV Paladino, JR Spotila… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Sea turtles nest on tropical and subtropical beaches, where developmental success of egg
clutches depends on nest temperature. Higher nest temperatures increase embryo and …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial DNA profiling to combat the illegal trade in tortoiseshell products

EL LaCasella, MP Jensen, CA Madden Hof… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) are exploited for their beautiful shell known as
tortoiseshell or bekko, making them extremely vulnerable in the illegal global trade of …

Non-random mating within an Island rookery of Hawaiian hawksbill turtles: demographic discontinuity at a small coastline scale

JB Horne, A Frey, AR Gaos… - Royal Society Open …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) from the Hawaiian archipelago form a small
and genetically isolated population, consisting of only a few tens of individuals breeding …

A versatile Rapture (RAD‐Capture) platform for genotyping marine turtles

LM Komoroske, MR Miller, SM O'Rourke… - Molecular Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in high‐throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies coupled with increased
interdisciplinary collaboration are rapidly expanding capacity in the scope and scale of …

[HTML][HTML] When population-advantageous primary sex ratios are female-biased: changing concepts to facilitate climate change management in sea turtles

P Santidrián Tomillo - Climatic Change, 2022 - Springer
Sea turtles have temperature-dependent sex determination. Because females are produced
at high temperatures, increasing global temperature may lead to population feminization …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial ecology of hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in foraging habitats of the Gulf of California, Mexico

L Martinez-Estevez, JPC Amador, FC Amador… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding movement patterns and habitat preferences of endangered species during
their most vulnerable life stages is a key step to developing effective conservation strategies …

[HTML][HTML] Kinship genomics approach to study mating systems in a depleted sea turtle rookery

SS Prakash, MM Lal, PH Dutton, C Rico… - Regional Studies in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of demographic processes and life history strategies is necessary for
the conservation and management of endangered sea turtle populations, but it is difficult to …

Potential drivers and implications of a balanced breeding sex ratio in a small population of an imperiled species with environmental sex determination

I Silver‐Gorges, BM Shamblin, M Ashford… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Small populations of imperiled species are susceptible to the negative consequences of
skewed sex‐ratios. In imperiled species with environmental sex determination such as sea …