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1	Abercrombie, C. L., III. 1989. Population dynamics of the American alligator. Pages 1–16 in Crocodiles: their ecology, management, and conservation. IUCN Publication New Series, ISBN 2-88032-987-6, Gland, Switzerland.
2	Adrian, M. 1967. The American alligator. Hastings House, New York, New York, USA. 63pp.
3	Allen, R. n.d. Alligator farming. Ross Allen's Reptile Institute, Bulletin No. 44, Silver Springs, Florida, USA. 2pp.
4	Allen, E. R. 1935. Some alligator secrets. Florida Conservator 1(10):10–11.
5	Allen, E. R. 1940. About Florida's alligators. Florida Game and Fish 1(6):7–9, 14.
6	Allen, E. R., and W. T. Neill. 1952. The American alligator. Florida Wildlife 6(5):8–9, 44.
7	Baker, M. 1996. Haines City High School aquaculture a big success. Gatortales, The American Alligator News Magazine 4(2):1–2.
8	Bancroft, G. T., J. S. Godley, D. T. Gross, N. N. Rojas, D. A. Sutphen and R. W. McDiarmid. 1983. Large-scale operations management test of use of the white amur for control of problem aquatic plants. The herpetofauna of Lake Conway: species accounts. Final report. Miscellaneous Paper A-83-5, U.S. Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, CE, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. 304pp.
9	Barr, B. 1997. Food habits of the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, in the southern Everglades. Dissertation, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA. 243pp.
10	Beltz, E. 1997. Herp news from around the world: primitive gators meet civilized people. Vivarium 8(6):12–13.
11	Cardeilhac, P. T., D. L. Winternitz, J. D. Barnett, O. L. Bass, and W. R. Wolff. 1999. The American alligator as a sentinel for the environmental status of southern wetlands. Proceedings of the International Association of Aquatic Animal Medicine 30:69 (abstract), Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
12	Carr, A. F., Jr. 1976. Foreword: excerpts from the life of an alligator: a re-appraisal of "The Alligator's Life History." Pages v–x in E. A. McIlhenny. The alligator's life history. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology.
13	Carr, A. 1994. Alligator country. Pages 104–124 in M. H. Carr, editor. A naturalist in Florida: a celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New Haven and London,Connecticut, USA.
14	Dalrymple, G. H. 1996. Growth of American alligators in the Shark Valley region of Everglades National Park. Copeia 1996:212–216.
15	Deitz, D. C. 1979. Behavioral ecology of young American alligators. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 151pp.
16	Delany, M. F., S. B. Linda, and C. T. Moore. 1999. Diet and condition of American alligators in 4 Florida Lakes. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 53:375–389.
17	Fichter, G. S. 1958. Living fossil of the swamp. Nature Magazine 51:13–16, 50.
18	Fichter, G. S. 1958. That "terrible lizard," the alligator. Reader's Digest 72(January):97–100.
19	Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. 1985. Alligator research project annual report FY 1984–85. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. (Unpublished Report)
20	Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. 1986. 1985–86 annual report. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 28pp.
21	Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. 1990. 1989–90 annual report. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 40pp.
22	Fogarty, M. J. 1974. The ecology of the Everglades alligator. Pages 367–373 in P. J. Gleason, editor. Environments of south Florida: present and past. Miami Geological Society Memoirs 2.
23	Fogarty, M. J. 1984. The ecology of the Everglades alligator. Pages 211–218 in P. J. Gleason, editor. Environments of south Florida: present and past II. Miami Geological Society, Coral Gables, Florida, USA.
24	Garrick, L. D., and J. W. Lang. 1977. The alligator revealed. Natural History 86(6):53–61.
25	Guillette, L. J., Jr., T. S. Gross, G. Masson, H. F. Percival, and J. M. Matter. 1993. Reproductive cyclicity and fall vitellogenesis in the American alligator. Pages 107–108 (abstract) in Abstracts of the Second World Congress of Herpetology, 29 December 1993–6 January 1994, Adelaide, South Australia.
26	Guillette, L. J., Jr., A. R. Woodward, Q. You-Xiang, M. C. Cox, J. M. Matter, and T. S. Gross. 1995. Formation and regression of the corpus luteum of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Journal of Morphology 224:97–110.
27	Guillette, L. J., Jr., D. A. Crain, A. A. Rooney, and D. B. Pickford. 1995. Organization versus activation: the role of endocrine-disrupting contaminants (EDCs) during embryonic development in wildlife. Environmental Health Perspectives 103(Supplement 7):157–164.
28	Hartley, W., and E. Hartley. 1977. The alligator: king of the wilderness. Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 175pp.
29	Jacobsen, T., and J. A. Kushlan. 1989. Growth dynamics of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Journal of Zoology, London 219:309–328.
30	Kam, Y.-C. 1992. Environmental influences on the critical oxygen tension, water balance, metabolism, and growth of reptilian embryos (Alligator mississippiensis, Caretta caretta, Pseudemys nelsoni, Elaphe obsoleta quadrivittata, Sceloporus undulatus undulatus). Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 124pp.
31	Kellogg, R. 1929. The habits and economic importance of alligators. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin No. 147, Washington, D.C. 36pp.
32	Masson, G. R., L. J. Guillette, Jr., H. F. Percival, and K. G. Rice. 1991. Zygote mortality of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) in Florida. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Annual Report, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 8pp.
33	Masson, G. R. 1995. Environmental influences on reproductive potential, clutch viability and embryonic mortality of the American alligator in Florida. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 124pp.
34	Mazzotti, F. J. 1982. Effects of temperature and salinity on growth rates of hatchling crocodiles and alligators: implications for their distributions in southern Florida. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 63:83 (abstract).
35	Mazzotti, F. J. 1984. Integrating behavior, physiology, and ecology in American alligators and crocodiles. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 65:156 (abstract).
36	Mazzotti, F. J., and L. A. Brandt. 1994. Ecology of the American alligator in a seasonally fluctuating environment. Pages 485–505 in S. M. Davis and J. C. Ogden, editors. Everglades: the ecosystem and its restoration. St. Lucie Press, Delray Beach, Florida, USA.
37	McCutcheon, R. 1996. Haines City helping to provide environment for tomorrow's alligator. Gatortales, The American Alligator News Magazine 4(3):4–5.
38	Neill, W. T. 1950. Ross Allen's Reptile Institute, Silver Springs, Florida. Ross Allen's Reptile Institute, Silver Springs, Florida, USA. 32pp.
39	Neill, W. T. 1971. The last of the ruling reptiles: alligators, crocodiles, and their kin. Columbia University Press, New York, New York, USA. 486pp.
40	Percival, H. F., and K. G. Rice. 1999. American alligator distribution, thermoregulation, and biotic potential relative to hydroperiod in the Everglades. Pages 84–85 in S. Gerould and A. Higer, compilers. U.S. Geological Survey program on the South Florida ecosystem. Proceedings of South Florida restoration science forum, 17–19 May 1999, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-181, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
41	Peters, D. K. 1989. The effect of the antibiotic Virginiamycin on growth performance of American alligator hatchlings, Alligator mississippiensis. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 154pp.
42	Pickford, D. B. 1995. Endocrine regulation of clitero-penis development in the juvenile American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 136pp.
43	Reese, A. M. 1906. A double embryo of the Florida alligator. Anatomischer Anzeiger 28:229–231.
44	Reese, A. M. 1912. The embryology of the Florida alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Proceedings of the International Zoological Congress 7:535–537.
45	Reese, A. M. 1913. The histology of the enteron of the Florida alligator. Anatomical Record 7:105–129.
46	Schortemeyer, J. L., L. C. Chappell, and E. C. Campbell. 1973. Long term recapture of an American alligator in Broward County. Florida Naturalist 46(1):28–29.
47	Schuessler, R. 1957. Alligators are killers. American Mercury 84(396):77–81.
48	Steel, R. 1989. Crocodiles. Christopher Helm, London, United Kingdom. 198pp.
49	Stewart, D. 2000. Visiting the heart of alligator country. National Wildlife 38(4):20–27.
50	Temsiripong, Y. 1999. Growth and survival rates of wild and repatriated hatchling American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) in central Florida lakes. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 55pp.
51	Temsiripong, Y., J. P. Ross, A. Woodward, and H. F. Percival. 2000. The effect of egg collection with repatriation on the population dynamics of Florida alligators. Pages 262–270 in Crocodiles: Proceedings of the 15th Working Meeting of the Crocodile Specialist Group, IUCN—The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, United Kingdom.
52	Toops, C. M. 1979. The alligator: monarch of the Everglades. Everglades Natural History Association, Homestead, Florida, USA. 63pp.
53	Usina, F. C., and W. I. Dyrsdale. 1949. Alligator!: a review of the life and habits of the American alligator with added chapters on crocodiles, Galapagos tortoises, African ostriches and alligators in motion pictures. St. Augustine Alligator Farm, St. Augustine, Florida, USA. 32pp.
54	Vollbrecht, J. L. 1946. Alligator college. Florida Outdoors 1(9):6–7, 24.
55	Vollbrecht, J. L. 1947. From swamp to swank. Nature Magazine 40:237–240. 276.
56	Woodward, A. R. 1981. Regulation of alligator farming by the State of Florida. Pages 4–9 in P. Cardheilac, T. Lane, and R. Larsen, editors. Proceedings of the First Annual Alligator Production Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
57	Woodward, A. R., and C. T. Moore. 1992. Alligator age determination. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Statewide Wildlife Research Final Performance Report Study No. 7563, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 37pp.
58	Woodward, A. R. 1992. Alligator egg viability. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Statewide Wildlife Research Final Performance Report Study No. 7561, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 9pp.
59	Woodward, A. 1993. Developing Florida's Alligator Harvest Program: the experimental harvests. Gatortales, The Florida Alligator Trappers Association Newsletter 1(2):4.
60	Woodward, A. R. 1995. Determination of appropriate harvest strategies for alligator management units. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Statewide Wildlife Research Final Performance Report Study No. 7562, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 49pp.

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