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Detection of cytonuclear genomic dissociation in the North American captive African elephant collection.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Lei Runhua, Brenneman Rick A, Schmitt Dennis L, Louis Edward E
Abstract excerpt
A total of 114 captive elephants (6 Asian; 108 African) from 43 private institutions or North American zoos accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums were sampled and evaluated to investigate genetic status. Because previous analyses of the captive collection indicated potential cytonuclear dissociation between mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence and microsatellite nuclear DNA genotype data, we...
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