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Marine Turtle Newsletter-Online
Number 132 January 2012

MTN132 Cover
Carcass of a large female leatherback turtle found on the beach on the eastern coastline of Hormozgan Province in April 2010, see pages 5-6 (photo: M. Barmoodeh).

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Articles

mtn132p1.shtmlMitochondrial DNA Variation in Hawksbill Turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) Nesting on Ishigaki Island, Japan - Hideaki Nishizawa, Junichi Okuyama, Osamu Abe, Masato Kobayashi & Nobuaki Arai

mtn132p3.shtmlDescription of mtDNA Markers of Loggerhead Turtles from Caribbean Colombia - Carolina Franco-Espinosa & Javier Hernández-Fernández

mtn132p5.shtmlRecent Records of the Leatherback Turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, from the Iranian Coastline of the Gulf of Oman - Mohsen Rezaie-Atagholipour & Mohammad Barmoodeh

mtn132p6.shtmlCapture of Green Sea Turtles, Chelonia mydas, in Fish Weirs off the Coast of PiauÌ, Northeastern Brazil - Ana C.G. Mai, Thiago F. A. Silva, Jefferson F. A. Legat & Daniel Loebmann

mtn132p8.shtmlNotes on the Spatial Distribution and Foraging Behavior of Green Turtles at the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Northeastern Brazil - Humberto M. Gitirana & Allan T. Souza

mtn132p13.shtmlDigenetic Trematodes of Dermochelys coriacea From the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean - Max R. Werneck, Luciana Verissimo, Paula Baldassin, Fiorella Gagliardi, Eduardo Tadashi, Juçara Wanderlinde, Cecília Baptistotte, Maria T.D. Melo, Eduardo H.S.M. Lima, Berenice G. Gallo & Reinaldo J. da Silva

mtn132p15.shtmlLeatherback Turtle Nesting in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea - Jeff Kinch, Scott Benson, Paul Anderson & Kevin Anana

Announcements

mtn132p18a.shtml32nd Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology & Conservation 11 – 16 March 2012 in Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico - Ana R. Barragán

mtn132p18b.shtmlFUNDING OPPORTUNITY

mtn132p19.shtmlRECENT PUBLICATIONS (2011 Inclusive)


Editors: Editorial Board

Lisa M. Campbell
Nicholas School of the Environment
and Earth Sciences, Duke University
135 Duke Marine Lab Road
Beaufort, NC 28516 USA

Managing Editor:

Michael S. Coyne
SEATURTLE.ORG
1 Southampton Place
Durham, NC 27705 USA

Matthew H. Godfrey
NC Sea Turtle Project
NC Wildlife Resources Commission
1507 Ann St.
Beaufort, NC 28516 USA

Founding Editor:

Nicholas Mrosovsky
University of Toronto, Canada

Brendan J. Godley & Annette C. Broderick (Editors Emeriti)
George Balazs
Angela Formia
Colin Limpus
Nicholas J. Pilcher
Manjula Tiwari
Kartik Shanker
Jeanette Wyneken

This issue of the MTN was converted to HTML by ALan Rees

Acknowledgements:

Publication of this issue was made possible by donations from the following individuals: Holger Vetter, Ivan Cumpian, Anne Voigt and organisations: Conservation International, International Sea Turtle Society, IUCN - Marine Turtle Specialist Group, US National Marine Fisheries Service-Office of Protected Resources, Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council. The MTN-Online is produced and managed by Michael Coyne.

The opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors and are not necessarily shared by the Editors, the Editorial Board, the University of Exeter, or any individuals or organizations providing financial support. Produced with assistance from:

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