Elephant natural history: A genomic perspective

Annual Review of Animal Biosciences

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 139-167

  Roca, Alfred L ^a   Ishida, Yasuko ^a   Brandt, Adam L ^a   Benjamin, Neal R ^a   Zhao, Kai ^a   Georgiadis, Nicholas J ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

conservation; evolution; mammoths; mitonuclear discordance; taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; LOXODONTA CYCLOTIS; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

DNA;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ELEPHANT; FEMALE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; MALE; MAMMOTH; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DNA; ELEPHANTS; FEMALE; FOSSILS; GENOME; GENOMICS; MALE; MAMMOTHS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84923125192     PISSN: 21658102     EISSN: 21658110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-animal-022114-110838     Document Type: Article

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