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1	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	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	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	Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. 1992. 1991–92 annual report. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 20pp.
5	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.
6	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.
7	Kwiatkowski, P. A., and K. Connor. 1995. Physiology, genetics, and behavior of Gopherus polyphemus. Publicaciones de la Sociedad Herpetologica Mexicana 2:41–44.
8	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.
9	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.
10	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.
11	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.
12	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.
13	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.

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