Active coral restoration typically involves two interventions: crossing gametes to facilitate
sexual larval propagation; and fragmenting, growing, and outplanting adult colonies to …

Sea turtles present a model for the potential impacts of climate change on imperiled species,
with projected warming generating concern about their persistence. Various sea turtle life …

Ex situ management is an important conservation tool that allows the preservation of
biological diversity outside natural habitats while supporting survival in the wild. Captive …

Although leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) are highly migratory and have a wide
oceanic distribution, the South West Atlantic (SWA) subpopulation comprises few …

Background Parasite infections can have substantial impacts on population dynamics and
are accordingly a key challenge for wild population management. Here we studied genetic …

The 'good genes' hypothesis for the evolution of male secondary sexual traits poses that
female preferences for such traits are driven by indirect genetic benefits. However, support …

Genetic analyses of nuclear DNA (eg, microsatellites) are a primary tool for investigating
mating systems in reptiles, particularly marine turtles. Whereas studies over the past two …

Hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) from the Hawaiian archipelago form a small
and genetically isolated population, consisting of only a few tens of individuals breeding …

Selection is a central force underlying evolutionary change and can vary in strength and
direction, for example across time and space. The fitness consequences of individual …

Mate choice for genetic benefits is assumed to be widespread in nature, yet very few studies
have comprehensively examined relationships between female mate choice and male …