Distinguishing forest and savanna African elephants using short nuclear DNA sequences

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 610-616

  Ishida, Yasuko ^a   Demeke, Yirmed ^b   Van Coeverden De Groot, Peter J ^c   Georgiadis, Nicholas J ^d   Leggett, Keith E A ^e,g   Fox, Virginia E ^f   Roca, Alfred L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Wildlife for Sustainable Development   (Ethiopia)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Bole and Klingenstein Foundation   (United States)

^e Namibian Elephant and Giraffe Trust   (Namibia)

^f Elephant Human Relations Aid ^*  (Namibia)

^g UNSW Arid Zone Research Station   (Australia)

Author keywords

conservation; fecal DNA; forensics; Loxodonta; systematics; taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ACCURACY; AFRICA; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BGN GENE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONGO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELEPHANT; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; ETHIOPIA; FORENSIC GENETICS; FOREST; GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; LOXODONTA CYCLOTIS; MANURE; MARKER GENE; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHKA2 GENE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLP GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAVANNA; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TROPHIC LEVEL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONGO; DNA; ELEPHANTS; ETHIOPIA; GENES, X-LINKED; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; NAMIBIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA;

EID: 80052041653     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esr073     Document Type: Article

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