POPULATION-STRUCTURE OF LOGGERHEAD TURTLES (CARETTA-CARETTA) IN THE NORTHWESTERN ATLANTIC-OCEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN-SEA

被引：123

作者：

BOWEN, B

AVISE, JC

RICHARDSON, JI

MEYLAN, AB

MARGARITOULIS, D

HOPKINSMURPHY, SR

机构：

[1] Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

[2] Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

[3] Florida Marine Research Institute, St Petersburg, Florida, 33701

[4] Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, Athens, GR-106 82

[5] South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department, Charleston, South Carolina, 29422

来源：

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY | 1993年 / 7卷 / 04期

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D O I：

10.1046/j.1523-1739.1993.740834.x

中图分类号：

X176 [生物多样性保护];

学科分类号：

090705 ;

摘要：

To assess population genetic structure and evolutionary relationships among nesting populations of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta), we analyzed mitochondrial (mt) DNA variation in 113 samples from four nesting beaches in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean and from one nesting beach in the Mediterranean Sea. Significant differences in haplotype frequency between nesting populations in Florida and in Georgia/South Carolina, and between both of these assemblages and the Mediterranean nesting colony, indicate substantial restrictions on contemporary gene flow between regional populations; and therefore a strong tendency for natal homing by females. Nonetheless, this regional genetic structure appears shallow, indicating recent evolutionary connections among rookeries. Data from tag returns and mtDNA as well as geological considerations, suggest that over short evolutionary time scales (perhaps a few thousand years), dispersal by female loggerheads is sufficient to allow colonization of appropriate habitat in proximity to established rookeries but is too low to significantly affect the population dynamics of rookeries on a contemporary time scale. These data indicate that nesting populations of the loggerhead turtle must be managed as demographically independent units. The population subdivisions based on mtDNA analyses are concordant with previously reported distinctions between Florida and Georgia/South Carolina nesting populations based on environmental markers, tag recaptures and morphology.

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页码：834 / 844

页数：11

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