Chronology of the extant African elephant species and case study of the species identification of the small African elephant with the molecular phylogenetic method

Gene

Volumn 441, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 176-186

  Murata, Yumie ^a,b   Yonezawa, Takahiro ^c,d   Kihara, Ichiro ^e   Kashiwamura, Toshihide ^e   Sugihara, Yuji ^e   Nikaido, Masato ^a   Okada, Norihiro ^a   Endo, Hideki ^b   Hasegawa, Masami ^b,c,d,f  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^e Tokuyama Zoological Garden   (Japan)

^f INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Africana; Coalescence time; Cyclotis; Elephantidae; Loxodonta; Phylogeography; Proboscidea

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; ELEPHANT; EXTANT SPECIES; FEMALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; ELEPHANTS; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; PHYLOGENY;

ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; LOXODONTA CYCLOTIS;

EID: 66049125064     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2009.01.014     Document Type: Article

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