Nuclear insertion sequences of mitochondrial DNA predominate in hair but not in blood of elephants

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 133-137

  Greenwood, Alex D ^a   Pääbo, Svante ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elephants; Ex mitochondrial sequences; Hair DNA; Mitochondrial like nuclear sequences; mtDNA; Nulcear mtDNA insertions

Indexed keywords

BLOOD ANALYSIS; ELEPHANT; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; HAIR; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELEPHANTS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAIR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032918462     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.1999.00507.x     Document Type: Article

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