Historical sampling reveals dramatic demographic changes in western gorilla populations

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Thalmann, Olaf ^a,e   Wegmann, Daniel ^b   Spitzner, Marie ^a   Arandjelovic, Mimi ^a   Guschanski, Katerina ^a   Leuenberger, Christoph ^c   Bergl, Richard A ^d   Vigilant, Linda ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^d North Carolina Zoological Park   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIVERGENCE; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FRAGMENTATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTORICAL RECORD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; POPULATION MODELING; PRIMATE; SAMPLING; SUBSPECIES; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA;

GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA; PAN;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GORILLA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GORILLA GORILLA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 79953253308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-85     Document Type: Article

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