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Triangulating the provenance of African elephants using mitochondrial DNA

African elephant mitochondrial (mt) DNA follows a distinctive evolutionary trajectory. As females do not migrate between elephant herds, mtDNA exhibits low geographic dispersal. We therefore examined the effectiveness of mtDNA for assigning the provenance of African elephants (or their ivory). For 6...

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Autores principales: Ishida, Yasuko, Georgiadis, Nicholas J, Hondo, Tomoko, Roca, Alfred L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3689351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23798975
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-4571.2012.00286.x