How Ebola impacts genetics of western lowland gorilla populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  le Gouar, Pascaline J ^a   Vallet, Dominique ^a   David, Laetitia ^a   Bermejo, Magdalena ^b   Gatti, Sylvain ^a   Levréro, Florence ^a,c   Petit, Eric J ^a,d   Ménard, Nelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^d AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GORILLA; IMMIGRATION; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION SIZE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONGO; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; GORILLA GORILLA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SAMPLE SIZE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; PRIMATES;

EID: 77954063233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008375     Document Type: Article

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