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Climate Change and Green Sea Turtle Sex Ratio—Preventing Possible Extinction

Climate change poses a threat to species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD). A recent study on green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) at the northern Great Barrier Reef (GBR) showed a highly female-skewed sex ratio with almost all juvenile turtles being female. This shortage of males mig...

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Autores principales: Blechschmidt, Jana, Wittmann, Meike J., Blüml, Chantal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7288305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32466335
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes11050588