Cytonuclear genomic dissociation in African elephant species

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 96-100

  Roca, Alfred L ^a   Georgiadis, Nicholas ^b   O'Brien, Stephen J ^c  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b MPALA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Kenya)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; ELEPHANT; FOREST; GENE FLOW; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAVANNA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELEPHANTS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA;

EID: 11244270692     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1485     Document Type: Article

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