Complex phylogeographic history of central African forest elephants and its implications for taxonomy

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Johnson, Mireille B ^a,b   Clifford, Stephen L ^a   Goossens, Benoît ^b   Nyakaana, Silvester ^c   Curran, Bryan ^d   White, Lee J T ^d   Wickings, E Jean ^a   Bruford, Michael W ^b  

^a CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^d Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)   (Gabon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ELEPHANT; EVOLUTION; FOREST; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SAVANNA; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY;

LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA CYCLOTIS;

CYTOCHROME B; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; ANIMALS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELEPHANTS; GENETIC MARKERS; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 40349110998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-244     Document Type: Article

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