Genetic diversity is an important component of biodiversity and investigating and protecting the wild genetic diversity of species has always been an important research topic in conservation biology. Due to habitat destruction and over catching, wild Chinese soft-shell turtles (Pelodiscus spp.) have been severely damaged, resulting in the species being listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2000. However, only few studies with contradictory results on the genetic diversity of Pelodiscus turtles have been reported. To investigate the genetic diversity and population structure of P...
