Triangulating the provenance of African elephants using mitochondrial DNA

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 253-265

  Ishida, Yasuko ^a   Georgiadis, Nicholas J ^b   Hondo, Tomoko ^a,c   Roca, Alfred L ^a  

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

^b Japan Eco Science ^*

^c Japan Eco science Co Ltd (Nikkan Kagaku)   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conservation; Forensics; Forest elephants; Ivory; Microsatellite markers; Phylogeography; Savanna elephants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874057394     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2012.00286.x     Document Type: Article

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