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1 458 Anonymous. 1993. Gopher tortoise research. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Office of Resource Management, Resource Management Notes 5(3):14. (from Tortoise Burrow, April 1993)
2 966 Berish, J. E. 1994. Management plan for the gopher tortoise in Florida. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Statewide Wildlife Research Final Performance Report Study No. 7539, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 44pp.
3 976 Berish, J. E. 2001. Management considerations for the gopher tortoise in Florida. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Final Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 44pp.
4 9495 Berish, J. E. 2011. Microsatellite analysis of the genetic variation in Panhandle gopher tortoise populations, with comparisons to peninsula populations. Final Report. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission,Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 34pp.
5 9650 Clostio, R. W., A. M. Martinez, K. E. LeBlanc, and N. M. Anthony. 2012. Population genetic structure of a threatened tortoise across the south‐eastern United States: implications for conservation management. Animal Conservation 15:613–625.
6 9599 Ennen, J. R., B. R. Kreiser, C. P. Qualls, D. Gaillard, M. Aresco, R. Birkhead, T. D. Tuberville, E. D. McCoy, H. Mushinsky, T. W. Hentges, and A. Schrey 2012. Mitochondrial DNA assessment of the phylogeography of the gopher tortoise. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 3:110−122.
7 2416 Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. 1992. 1991–92 annual report. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 20pp.
8 7087 Franz, R., and S. E. Franz. 2004. Gopher tortoise evolution: East vs. West. A possible paradigm shift. Abstract in 29th Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council, 20–23 February 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
9 3619 Kwiatkowski, P. 1995. History characteristics of gopher tortoises with reference to gaps in our knowledge. Tortoise Burrow, Bulletin of the Gopher Tortoise Council 15(1):9–10.
10 3620 Kwiatkowski, P. A., and K. Connor. 1994. Physiology, genetics, and behavior of Gopherus polyphemus. Pages 48–53 in G. Aguirrie, E. D. McCoy, and H. R. Mushinsky, organizers. North American Tortoise Conference, 8–12 October 1994, Durango, Mexico.
11 3621 Kwiatkowski, P. A., and K. Connor. 1995. Physiology, genetics, and behavior of Gopherus polyphemus. Publicaciones de la Sociedad Herpetólogica Mexicana 2:41–44.
12 3638 Lamb, R., and M. Osentoski. 1993. mtDNA variation in the gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, in Florida. Final Report to Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 18pp.
13 4383 Moler, P. E. 1993. Genetics of gopher tortoise populations. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Statewide Wildlife Research Final Performance Report Study No. 7535, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 18pp.
14 4763 Osentoski, M. F., and T. Lamb. 1993. mtDNA variation in the gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus. Abstract in Proceedings of the 1993 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 7–12 August 1993, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
15 4764 Osentoski, M. F., and T. Lamb. 1995. Intraspecific phylogeography of the gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus: RFLP analysis of amplified mtDNA segments. Molecular Ecology 4:709–718.
16 8373 Schwartz, T. S. 2003. Population structure of the gopher tortise [sic] (Gopherus polyphemus) in Florida, using microsatellites. M.S. Thesis, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA. 138pp.
17 6819 Schwartz, T. S., and S. A. Karl. 2003. Colonization and dispersal of Gopherus polyphemus during the Pleistocene. Abstract in Joint Meeting of the 19th Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 51st Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, and the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; 26 June–1 July 2003, The Tropical Hotel Conference Center, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
18 7447 Schwartz, T. S., and S. A. Karl. 2005. Population and conservation genetics of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus). Abstract in Joint Meeting of the 21st Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, 85th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, and the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; 6–11 July 2005, Tampa, Florida, USA.
19 7688 Schwartz, T. S., and S. A. Karl. 2005. Population and conservation genetics of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus). Conservation Genetics 6:917–928.
20 7581 Schwartz, T. S., M. Osentoski, T. Lamb, and S. A. Karl. 2003. Microsatellite loci for the North American tortoises (genus Gopherus) and their applicability to other turtle species. Molecular Ecology Notes 3:283–286.
21 8696 Schwarz, T. S., and S. A. Karl. 2008. Population genetic assignment of confiscated gopher tortoises. Journal of Wildlife Management 72:254–259.
22 10219 Sinclair, C. S., P. J. Dawes, and R. A. Seigel. 2008. Population genetics of the gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) on the Kennedy Space Center, FL. Pages 36−37 (abstract) in 30th Annual Meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council, 3−5 October 2008, Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA.
23 9275 Sinclair, C. S., P. J. Dawes, and R. A. Seigel. 2010. Genetic structuring of gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) populations on the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 5:189–195.
24 10207 Sinclair-Winters, C. 2010. Genetic structuring of gopher tortoise populations in Florida: panhandle vs. peninsula. Abstract in Gopher Tortoise Council 2010 Annual Meeting, 7–10 October 2010, Columbiana, Alabama, USA.
25 6528 Walker, D., and J. C. Avise. 1998. Principles of phylogeography as illustrated by freshwater and terrestrial turtles in the southeastern United States. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 29:23–58.
26 10470 Winters, C., J. Ross, J., and P. Allman. 2017. Population genetics between an insular and coastal population of gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) in Southwest Florida. Journal of Shellfish Research 16:369−382.

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