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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...
Autores principales: | Blechschmidt, Jana, Wittmann, Meike J., Blüml, Chantal |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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