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Elephant genotypes reveal the size and connectivity of transnational ivory traffickers.

Nature human behaviour - 1 Mar 2022

Wasser Samuel K, Wolock Charles J, Kuhner Mary K, Brown John E, Morris Chris, Horwitz Ryan J, Wong Anna, Fernandez Charlene J, Otiende Moses Y, Hoareau Yves, Kaliszewska Zofia A, Jeon Eunjin, Han Kin-Lan, Weir Bruce S

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Transnational ivory traffickers continue to smuggle large shipments of elephant ivory out of Africa, yet prosecutions and convictions remain few. We identify trafficking networks on the basis of genetic matching of tusks from the same individual or close relatives in separate shipments. Analyses are drawn from 4,320 savannah (Loxodonta africana) and forest (L. cyclotis) elephant tusks, sampled from 49 large ivory...

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PMID: 35165434
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01267-6
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