ISTS Symposium43 Program/Agenda

*FROM GENOMES TO CONSERVATION: POPULATION STRUCTURE AND ADAPTIVE VARIATION IN LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLES ACROSS RMUS

Alessia Cherin¹, Astrid Luna-Ortiz¹, Alberto Abreu-Grobois², David J. Duffy³, Abdulmaula Hamza^4,5, Elisabeth Labastida-Estrada⁶, César P. Ley-Quiñónez⁷, Raúl Llera-Herrera², Salima Machkour M`Rabet⁸, Adolfo Marco⁹, Dimitris Margaritoulis¹⁰, Oguz Turkozan¹¹, Alan Zavala-Norzagaray⁷, Sibelle Torres Vilaça¹², Sarah M. Vargas¹³, Livia Tolve¹⁴, Alessio Iannucci¹⁴, Claudio Ciofi¹⁴, Luisa Garofalo¹⁵, Giovanni Parise¹⁶, Salvatore Urso¹⁶, Cinta Pegueroles^1,17, Marta Pascual¹, Carlos Carreras¹

¹Evolutionary Genetics Lab, Spain; ²Unidad Académica Mazatlan, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 811, Mazatlan, Sinaloa 82000 Mexico; ³The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and Sea Turtle Hospital, University of Florida, St. Augustine, FL, 32080, USA); ⁴Libyan Sea Turtle Program, Environment General Authority, Alfateh University, PO Box 13793, Tripoli, Libya; ⁵Biology Department, Faculty of Education, University of Tripoli, souk Aljomoa, Tripoli, Libya; ⁶Colección Nacional de Helmintos. Departamento de Zoología. Instituto de Biología. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; ⁷Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional Unidad Sinaloa, Departamento de Medio Ambiente; ⁸Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular y Conservación, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Unidad Chetumal; ⁹Department of Biodiversity Conservation, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Americo Vespucio s/n, 41092, Seville, Spain; ¹⁰ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, Solomou 57, GR-10432 Athens, Greece; ¹¹Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, 09010 Aydın, Turkey; ¹²Vale Institute of Tecnology, Belém, PA, Brazil; ¹³Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil; ¹⁴Department of Biology, University of Florence, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy; ¹⁵Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e Della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, 00178 Rome, Italy; ¹⁶Caretta Calabria Conservation onlus, via G. Gronchi, 6 - 87100 Cosenza, Italy; ¹⁷Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

*INTEGRATING ENERGY BUDGET AND MIGRATION MODELS TO GUIDE CAPTIVE RELEASES OF LEATHERBACK TURTLES

Anna Antonia Ortega^1,2, Nina Marn^1,3, Tony Candela^2,4,5, Julien Temple-Boyer⁴, Philippe Gaspar⁴, Nicola Mitchell¹, George Shillinger²

¹The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; ²Upwell Turtles, Monterey California; ³Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia; ⁴Mercator Ocean International, Toulouse, France; ⁵Aquarium La Rochelle, Centre d'Etudes et de Soins pour les Tortues Marines, La Rochelle, France

*TRACING THE FOOTPRINT OF A WARMING CLIMATE ON SEA TURTLE POPULATION DYNAMICS

Fitra Arya Dwi Nugraha¹, Rebekka Allgayer², James Gilbert¹, Laura Sivess¹, Kirsten Fairweather³, Artur Lopes³, Sandra M. Correia⁴, Albert Taxonera³, Stephen J. Rossiter¹, Justin Travis², Christophe Eizaguirre¹

¹Department of Biology, School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom; ²Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 2TZ, United Kingdom; ³Project Biodiversity, Santa Maria 4111, Sal, Cabo Verde; ⁴Instituto do Mar, Cova de Inglesa, CP 132, Mindelo, Cabo Verde

*SEXUALLY DIMOPRHIC TRANSCRIPTION AND DNA METHYLATION BLOOD PROFILES OF LOGGERHEAD (CARETTA CARETTA) HATCHLINGS INCUBATED AT CONTROLLED TEMPERATURES

Gabriella A. Carvajal¹, Blair Bentley², Eugenie C. Yen³, James D. Gilbert³, Camryn Allen⁴, Marylou Staman⁴, Jeanette Wyneken¹, Christophe Eizaguirre³, Lisa M. Komoroske⁵, Itzel Sifuentes-Romero⁶

¹Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 33431, USA; ²Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 01063, USA; ³School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; ⁴Marine Turtle Biology and Assessment Program, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, USA; ⁵Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, 01003, USA; ⁶Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

POPULATION STRUCTURE OF GREEN TURTLES CHELONIA MYDAS AT A FORAGING GROUND IN THE SOUTHEASTERN PERSIAN GULF

Nicolas Pilcher¹, Mohsen Razaie-Atagholipur^2,3, Mohammad Ghavasi⁴, Seyed Mohammad Hashem Dakhteh⁴, Mohammad Reza Shokri⁵, Mohammad Javidkar⁶, Michael Jensen⁷

¹Marine Research Foundation, Malaysia; ²Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; ³Qeshm Environmental Conservation Institute, Qeshm Island, Iran; ⁴Environmental Management Office, Qeshm Free Area Organization, Qeshm Island, Iran; ⁵Faculty of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran; ⁶The University of Texas Health Science Centre, Houston, TX, USA; ⁷Marine Species Genetics Coordinator, WWF Coral Triangle Programme

TEN YEARS OF LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE NEST PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT IN EASTERN SPAIN (VALENCIA REGION).

Jesús Tomás¹, Juan Eymar², José Luís Crespo-Picazo³, Carla Eymar⁴, Mar Izquierdo-Serrano¹, Juan Antonio Pujol⁵, Eduardo Jorge Belda⁶

¹Marine Zoology Unit, Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain; ²Conselleria de Medio Ambiente, Infraestructuras y Territorio, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; ³Oceanografic, Veterinary Services, Parques Reunidos Valencia, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain; ⁴Xaloc Hermanos de Sal, Asociación para el estudio y conservación del mar, Valencia, Spain; ⁵Concejalía de Medio Ambiente, Ayuntamiento de Torrevieja, Alicante, Spain.; ⁶Instituto para la Investigación de Zonas Costeras (IGIC), Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain