Elephants

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Large mammals in the family Elephantidae, with columnar limbs, bulky bodies, and elongated snouts. They are the only surviving members of the PROBOSCIDEA MAMMALS.

Descriptor ID	D004606
MeSH Number(s)	B01.050.150.900.649.833.249
Concept/Terms	Elephants Elephants Elephant African Elephants African Elephants African Elephant Elephant, African Elephants, African Loxodonta Asiatic Elephants Asiatic Elephants Asiatic Elephant Elephant, Asiatic Elephants, Asiatic Elephas maximus

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Organisms [B]
Eukaryota [B01]
Animals [B01.050]
Chordata [B01.050.150]
Vertebrates [B01.050.150.900]
Mammals [B01.050.150.900.649]
Proboscidea Mammal [B01.050.150.900.649.833]
Elephants [B01.050.150.900.649.833.249]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2006	1	0	1
2016	0	1	1
2017	1	0	1
2018	3	0	3

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Braczkowski A, Holden MH, O'Bryan C, Choi CY, Gan X, Beesley N, Gao Y, Allan J, Tyrrell P, Stiles D, Brehony P, Meney R, Brink H, Takashina N, Lin MC, Lin HY, Rust N, Salmo SG, Watson JEM, Kahumbu P, Maron M, Possingham HP, Biggs D. Reach and messages of the world's largest ivory burn. Conserv Biol. 2018 08; 32(4):765-773.

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Biggs D, Smith RJ, Adams VM, Brink H, Cook CN, Cooney R, Holden MH, Maron M, Phelps J, Possingham HP, Redford KH, Scholes RJ, Sutherland WJ, Underwood FM, Milner-Gulland EJ. Response-Ivory crisis. Science. 2018 04 20; 360(6386):277-278.

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Palkopoulou E, Lipson M, Mallick S, Nielsen S, Rohland N, Baleka S, Karpinski E, Ivancevic AM, To TH, Kortschak RD, Raison JM, Qu Z, Chin TJ, Alt KW, Claesson S, Dal?n L, MacPhee RDE, Meller H, Roca AL, Ryder OA, Heiman D, Young S, Breen M, Williams C, Aken BL, Ruffier M, Karlsson E, Johnson J, Di Palma F, Alfoldi J, Adelson DL, Mailund T, Munch K, Lindblad-Toh K, Hofreiter M, Poinar H, Reich D. A comprehensive genomic history of extinct and living elephants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 03 13; 115(11):E2566-E2574.

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Biggs D, Holden MH, Braczkowski A, Cook CN, Milner-Gulland EJ, Phelps J, Scholes RJ, Smith RJ, Underwood FM, Adams VM, Allan J, Brink H, Cooney R, Gao Y, Hutton J, Macdonald-Madden E, Maron M, Redford KH, Sutherland WJ, Possingham HP. Breaking the deadlock on ivory. Science. 2017 12 15; 358(6369):1378-1381.

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Acharya KP, Paudel PK, Neupane PR, K?hl M. Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Nepal: Patterns of Human Fatalities and Injuries Caused by Large Mammals. PLoS One. 2016; 11(9):e0161717.

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Kiso WK, Selvaraj V, Nagashima J, Asano A, Brown JL, Schmitt DL, Leszyk J, Travis AJ, Pukazhenthi BS. Lactotransferrin in Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) seminal plasma correlates with semen quality. PLoS One. 2013; 8(8):e71033.

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Rogaev EI, Moliaka YK, Malyarchuk BA, Kondrashov FA, Derenko MV, Chumakov I, Grigorenko AP. Complete mitochondrial genome and phylogeny of Pleistocene mammoth Mammuthus primigenius. PLoS Biol. 2006 Mar; 4(3):e73.

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