Mitochondrial DNA reveals the natal origin of Caretta caretta (Testudines: Cheloniidae) stranded or bycaught along the Southwestern Adriatic coasts

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Figure 1. Neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree that highlights the two D-loop haplogroups also described in Shamblin et al. (2014), and the position of the new haplotypes (▲ and ●) identified in this study for the first time.

Figure 2. The inset graph shows the estimated contribution of the globally described rookeries (Shamblin et al. 2014) to the Southwestern Adriatic feeding ground. Bars represent 95% confidence intervals. The map shows with different colours the contribution (as a percentage) of the Mediterranean rookeries. GEO (Cape Island, South Carolina + Ossabaw Island, Georgia), FLO1 (Canaveral National Seashore + Melbourne Beach, Florida), FLO2 (Juno Beach + Ft. Lauderdale, Florida), CSL (Cay Sal, Bahamas), DRT (Dry Tortugas, Florida), MEX (Isla Cozumel + Quintana Roo mainland, Mexico), KEY (Keewaydin Island, Florida), CSK (Casey Key, Florida), FLO3 (St. George Island + Cape San Blas, Florida), BRA (Sergipe + Bahia + Espírito Santo + Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), CAP (Boa Vista + Sal + Santa Luzia + Maio, Cape Verde), CAL (Calabria, Italy), GRE (Zakynthos Island + Kyparissia + Lakonikos, Greece), CRT (Rethymno, Crete), DLY (Dalyan, Turkey), DAL (Dalaman, Turkey), TKW (western Turkey), TME (middle Turkey + eastern Turkey), CYP (Alagadi + Akamas, Cyprus), LIR (El Mansouri, Lebanon + Israel), LYB (Sirte + Misurata, Lybia), NAT (Tongaland, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), MAS (Masirah, Oman).

Shamblin BM , Bolten AB , Abreu-Grobois FA , Bjorndal KA , Cardona L , Carreras C , Clusa M , Monzón-Argüello C , Nairn CJ , Nielsen JT , Nel R , Soares LS , Stewart KR , Vilaça ST , Türkozan O , Yilmaz C , Dutton PH . 2014. Geographic patterns of genetic variation in a broadly distributed marine vertebrate: New insights into loggerhead turtle stock structure from expanded mitochondrial DNA sequences. PLoS One 9:e85956. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085956.

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