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The elephants of Gash-Barka, Eritrea: nuclear and mitochondrial genetic patterns.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Brandt Adam L, Hagos Yohannes, Yacob Yohannes, David Victor A, Georgiadis Nicholas J, Shoshani Jeheskel, Roca Alfred L
Abstract excerpt
Eritrea has one of the northernmost populations of African elephants. Only about 100 elephants persist in the Gash-Barka administrative zone. Elephants in Eritrea have become completely isolated, with no gene flow from other elephant populations. The conservation of Eritrean elephants would benefit from an understanding of their genetic affinities to elephants elsewhere on the continent and the degree to which...
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