Genetic Assessments and Parentage Analysis of Captive Bolson Tortoises (Gopherus flavomarginatus) Inform Their “Rewilding” in New Mexico

• Taylor Edwards ,

  * E-mail: taylore@email.arizona.edu

  Affiliation University of Arizona Genetics Core, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Elizabeth Canty Cox,

  Affiliation University of Arizona Genetics Core, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Vanessa Buzzard,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Christiane Wiese,

  Affiliation Turner Endangered Species Fund, Ladder Ranch, Caballo, New Mexico, United States of America

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• L. Scott Hillard,

  Affiliations Turner Endangered Species Fund, Ladder Ranch, Caballo, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Robert W. Murphy

  Affiliation Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

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