Non-invasive genetic monitoring of wild central chimpanzees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Arandjelovic, Mimi ^a   Head, Josephine ^a   Rabanal, Luisa I ^a   Schubert, Grit ^a   Mettke, Elisabeth ^a   Boesch, Christophe ^a   Robbins, Martha M ^a   Vigilant, Linda ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACCURACY; APE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FECES ANALYSIS; GABON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MONITORING; GENOTYPE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MONITORING; NATIONAL PARK; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WILD ANIMAL; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; FECES; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; PAN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; FECES; GABON; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TERRITORIALITY; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 79952685703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014761     Document Type: Article

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