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An exceptional case of historical outbreeding in African sable antelope populations.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2002
Pitra Christian, Hansen Anders J, Lieckfeldt Dietmar, Arctander Peter
Abstract excerpt
Empirical investigations of intraspecific outbreeding and subsequent introgressive hybridization in natural populations are rare, particularly among conspecific populations of large mammals. Using mitochondrial DNA data [partial control region (496 basepairs - bp) and cytochrome b gene (343 bp) sequences analysed from 95 individuals representing 17 sampling locations scattered through the African miombo...
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