A chromosomal inversion unique to the northern white-cheeked gibbon

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Carbone, Lucia ^a   Mootnick, Alan R ^b   Nadler, Tilo ^c   Moisson, Pierre ^d   Ryder, Oliver ^e   Roos, Christian ^f   de Jong, Pieter J ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Gibbon Conservation Center (GCC)   (United States)

^c Cuc Phuong National Park   (Viet Nam)

^d Parc Zoologique et Botanique de Mulhouse   (France)

^e INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^f GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HAPLORHINI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUBSPECIES; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HYLOBATES; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

HOMINOIDEA; HOMO; HYLOBATIDAE; NOMASCUS LEUCOGENYS LEUCOGENYS; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HYLOBATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 63449129331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004999     Document Type: Article

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