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Genetic Structure and Diversity Among Historic and Modern Populations of the Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis).
The Journal of heredity - 27 Jun 2018
Brandt Jessica R, van Coeverden de Groot Peter J, Witt Kelsey E, Engelbrektsson Paige K, Helgen Kristofer M, Malhi Ripan S, Ryder Oliver A, Roca Alfred L
Abstract excerpt
The Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), once widespread across Southeast Asia, now consists of as few as 30 individuals within Sumatra and Borneo. To aid in conservation planning, we sequenced 218 bp of control region mitochondrial (mt) DNA, identifying 17 distinct mitochondrial haplotypes across modern (N = 13) and museum (N = 26) samples. Museum specimens from Laos and Myanmar had divergent mtDNA,...
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