ElePhant database
Definition
A curated STR reference database for African savanna and forest elephants and Asian elephants, used to assign ivory to individual animals or to geographic populations.
Related terms
- BOLD Systems
- Barcode of Life Data System (University of Guelph, Canada). Holds over 9 million COI reference barcodes linked to voucher specimens, with mandatory...
- COI (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I)
- The 648 bp mitochondrial gene region proposed by Paul Hebert in 2003 as the universal barcode locus. Its combination of interspecific variation...
- DNA barcode
- A short, standardised sequence from a defined locus used to identify a specimen to species by comparison against a curated reference library....
- Minibarcode
- A 100-200 bp sub-region of the COI locus amplified when DNA is too degraded for the full 648 bp amplicon. Shorter target...
- STR (short tandem repeat)
- A genomic locus where a 2, 7 base-pair unit is repeated in tandem a variable number of times between individuals. The variation...
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- DNA Barcoding, STR Profiling, and Individual IdentificationA curated STR reference database for African savanna and forest elephants and Asian elephants, used to assign ivory to individual animals or to geographic popu...