Vol. 7 No. 1 (2012)
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Loggerhead turtles (<em>Caretta caretta</em>) foraging at Drini Bay in Northern Albania: Genetic characterisation reveals new haplotypes

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  • Can Yilmaz,
  • Oguz Turkozan,
  • Fevzi Bardakcı,
  • Michael White,
  • Esmeralda Kararaj
Can Yilmaz
Adnan Menderes University
Oguz Turkozan
Adnan Menderes University
Fevzi Bardakcı
Adnan Menderes University
Michael White
Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles
Esmeralda Kararaj
Tirana University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-10286

Published 2012-06-07

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Yilmaz, C., Turkozan, O., Bardakcı, F., White, M., & Kararaj, E. (2012). Loggerhead turtles (<em>Caretta caretta</em>) foraging at Drini Bay in Northern Albania: Genetic characterisation reveals new haplotypes. Acta Herpetologica, 7(1), 155–162. https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-10286
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Abstract

Loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) was studied over 3 summers in a nearshore habitat, the Patoku area in the southern part of Driniki Bay, Albania. Tissue samples were collected from 40 loggerhead turtles incidentally captured in stavnike fish-traps (a type of pond-net). A fragment of 859 base-pair mt-DNA d-loop region was amplified from these turtles and compared with previously described haplotypes. Haplotype CC-A2.1 (93%) was the dominant haplotype in the region. Two previously unknown haplotypes, CC-A6.1 and CC-A10.4, were decribed with this study. Furthermore, haplotype CC-A.2.8 was also observed which was previously recorded from Italy. Haplotype and nucleotide diversity were 0.14615 and 0.00017, respectively.
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