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Relatedness and demography of African forest elephants: inferences from noninvasive fecal DNA analyses.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Munshi-South Jason
Abstract excerpt
African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) are genetically and morphologically distinct from their savannah counterparts, but their biology remains poorly understood. In this study, I use noninvasive fecal DNA analyses to examine the relatedness structure and historical demography of forest elephants at 2 sites in SW Gabon, central Africa. Pairwise relatedness values calculated between 162 elephant individuals...
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