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1 Anonymous. 1981. Giant alligators. Newsletter of the National Alligator Association, Orlando, Florida, USA.
2 Davis, L. M., T. C. Glenn, R. M. Elsey, I. L. Brisbin, Jr., W. E. Rhodes, H. C. Dessauer, and R. H. Sawyer. 2001. Genetic structure of six populations of American alligators: a microsatellite analysis. Pages 38–50 in G. C. Grigg, F. Seebacher, and C. E. Frankin, editors. Crocodilian biology and evolution. Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, New South Wales, Australia.
3 Davis, L. M., T. C. Glenn, D. C. Strickland, L. J. Guillette, Jr., R. M. Elsey, H. C. Dessauer, and R. H. Sawyer. 2002. Microsatellite DNA analyses support an east-west phylogeographic split of American alligator populations. Journal of Experimental Zoology 294:352–372.
4 Glenn, T. C., W. Stephan, H. C. Dessauer, and M. J. Braun. 1996. Allelic diversity in alligator microsatellite loci is negatively correlated with GC content of flanking sequences and evolutionary conservation of PCR amplifiability. Molecular Biology and Evolution 13:1151–1154.
5 Glenn, T. C., H. C. Dessauer, I. L. Brisbin, and R. Sawyer. 1997. Diversity of microsatellite loci in American alligator populations. Abstract in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 77th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 45th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League 45, and 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 26 June–2 July 1997, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
6 Glenn, T. C., H. G. Dessauer, and M. J. Braun. 1998. Characterization of microsatellite DNA loci in American alligators. Copeia 1998:591–601.
7 Glenn, T. C., J. L. Staton, A. T. Vu, L. M. Davis, J. R. Alvarado Bremer, W. E. Rhodes, I. L. Brisbin, Jr., and R. H. Sawyer. 2002. Low mitochondrial DNA variation among American alligators and a novel non-coding region in crocodilians. Journal of Experimental Zoology 294:312–324.
8 Menzies, R. A., J. Kushlan, and H. C. Dessauer. 1979. Low degree of genetic variability in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Isozyme Bulletin 12:61.
9 Menzies, R. A. 1991. Allozyme variation and conservation: applications to spiny lobsters and crocodilians. Pages 121–139 in A. Seitz and V. Loeschcke, editors. Species conservation: a population-biological approach. Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland.
10 Rowe, T., C. A. Brochu, and K. Kishi, editors. 1998. Cranial morphology of Alligator mississippiensis and phylogeny of Alligatoridea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(2, supplement), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 6, Northbrook, Illinois, USA. 100pp.
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