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Allozyme variation and differentiation in African and Indian rhinoceroses.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Merenlender A M, Woodruff D S, Ryder O A, Kock R, Váhala J
Abstract excerpt
We studied variation at 25 to 31 allozymic loci in African and Asian rhinoceroses. Four taxa in three genera were examined: African Ceratotherium simum simum (northern white rhinoceros), C. s. cottoni (southern white rhinoceros), Diceros bicornis (black rhinoceros), and Rhinoceros unicornis (Indian rhinoceros). Extremely small amounts of intraspecific variation were observed in sample sizes of 2 to 10 presumably...
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