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Título: Genetic characterization of eastern Atlantic hawksbill turtles at a foraging group indicates major undiscovered nesting populations in the region
Autores/as: Monzón Argüello, Catalina 
Rico, Ciro
Marco, Adolfo
López, Pedro
López-Jurado, Luis Felipe 
Clasificación UNESCO: 24 Ciencias de la vida
2401 Biología animal (zoología)
240116 Herpetología
Palabras clave: Eretmochelys imbricata
Connectivity
Eastern Atlantic
Conservation genetics
Mitochondrial DNA, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2010
Publicación seriada: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 
Resumen: Despite the considerable population genetic and connectivity research on the hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) and the species being critically endangered, the eastern Atlantic remains understudied. We present the first analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences (n = 28) of hawksbill juveniles in a foraging aggregation at the Cape Verde Islands. Our results showed three haplotypes non-reported in any nesting population to date, with one of them accounting for 68% of the samples. These three haplotypes were closely related to each other but highly divergent from all known Caribbean and Western Atlantic haplotypes. These findings highlight the necessity of additional research, particularly expanding the genetic analyses throughout the western coast of Africa to include unsampled areas. Furthermore, we found three haplotypes (A, B, and F; 14% of the total samples) previously detected in rookeries from the western Atlantic. The genetic data presented here carried significant conservation and research applications.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/17591
ISSN: 0022-0981
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2010.03.004
Fuente: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology (2010) [ISSN 0022-0981], v. 387 (1-2), p. 9-14
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