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SUBMITTER: Johnson MB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2262091 | biostudies-literature | 2007
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Johnson Mireille B MB Clifford Stephen L SL Goossens Benoît B Nyakaana Silvester S Curran Bryan B White Lee Jt LJ Wickings E Jean EJ Bruford Michael W MW
BMC evolutionary biology 20071219
<h4>Background</h4>Previous phylogenetic analyses of African elephants have included limited numbers of forest elephant samples. A large-scale assessment of mitochondrial DNA diversity in forest elephant populations here reveals a more complex evolutionary history in African elephants as a whole than two-taxon models assume.<h4>Results</h4>We analysed hypervariable region 1 of the mitochondrial control region for 71 new central African forest elephants and the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene fro ...[more]