• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.1059936
Corpus ID: 38285623

Genetic Evidence for Two Species of Elephant in Africa

@article{Roca2001GeneticEF,
  title={Genetic Evidence for Two Species of Elephant in Africa},
  author={A. Roca and N. Georgiadis and J. Pecon-Slattery and S. O'Brien},
  journal={Science},
  year={2001},
  volume={293},
  pages={1473 - 1477}
}

• A. Roca, N. Georgiadis, +1 author S. O'Brien
• Published 2001
• Biology, Medicine
• Science

Elephants from the tropical forests of Africa are morphologically distinct from savannah or bush elephants. Dart-biopsy samples from 195 free-ranging African elephants in 21 populations were examined for DNA sequence variation in four nuclear genes (1732 base pairs). Phylogenetic distinctions between African forest elephant and savannah elephant populations corresponded to 58% of the difference in the same genes between elephant genera Loxodonta (African) and Elephas (Asian). Large genetic… Expand

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