Range-wide mtDNA phylogeography yields insights into the origins of Asian elephants

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1658, 2012, Pages 893-902

  Vidya, T N C ^a,b   Sukumar, Raman ^a   Melnick, Don J ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Divergent mitochondrial clades; Elephant trade; Elephas fossils; Phylogeography; Pleistocene refugia

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; CLADISTICS; DIVERGENCE; ELEPHANT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION SIZE; RANGE EXPANSION; VICARIANCE;

MYANMAR; SRI LANKA;

ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASIA; ELEPHANT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ASIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELEPHANTS; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 63849223128     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1494     Document Type: Article

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