Allozyme variation in a wild African elephant (Loxodonta africana) population from the Kruger National Park, South Africa.

doi:10.1016/0305-0491(93)90015-w

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Allozyme variation in a wild African elephant (Loxodonta africana) population from the Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Comparative biochemistry and physiology. B, Comparative biochemistry - 1 Sept 1993

Coetzee E M, Van Der Bank F H, Critser J K

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1. Blood, liver, heart, testis, skin, eye, muscle and kidney samples were obtained from elephants (Loxodonta africana) in the Kruger National Park during a culling programme in April 1992. 2. Gene products of 25 protein coding loci in L. africana were examined by horizontal starch-gel electrophor...

Topics

Animals
Electrophoresis
Elephants
Genetic Variation
Heterozygote
Isoenzymes
Kidney
Male
Muscles
Mutation
Myocardium
Skin
South Africa
Testis

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