A genetic survey of heavily exploited, endangered turtles: caveats on the conservation value of trade animals
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1 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA 2 Evolutionary Genomics Department, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA 3 Department of Natural Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA 4 Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA 5 Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA 6 Department of Biology, Hainan Normal University; Hainan, Haikou, China 7 The Field Museum, Department of Zoology, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, Chicago, IL, USA
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