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SUBMITTER: Rohland N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3006346 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rohland Nadin N Reich David D Mallick Swapan S Meyer Matthias M Green Richard E RE Georgiadis Nicholas J NJ Roca Alfred L AL Hofreiter Michael M
PLoS biology 20101221 12
To elucidate the history of living and extinct elephantids, we generated 39,763 bp of aligned nuclear DNA sequence across 375 loci for African savanna elephant, African forest elephant, Asian elephant, the extinct American mastodon, and the woolly mammoth. Our data establish that the Asian elephant is the closest living relative of the extinct mammoth in the nuclear genome, extending previous findings from mitochondrial DNA analyses. We also find that savanna and forest elephants, which some hav ...[more]