2010·PLoS biology
Genomic DNA sequences from mastodon and woolly mammoth reveal deep speciation of forest and savanna elephants
Rohland N, Reich D, Mallick S, Meyer M, Green RE, Georgiadis NJ, Roca AL, Hofreiter M.
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Abstract
This study compares three extant elephants species - forest, savanna, and Asian - to extinct mammoth and mastodon. Surprisingly, forest and savanna elephants in Africa today are as distinct from each other as mammoth and Asian elephants.
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