Genetic Sampling of Unhabituated Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in Gishwati Forest Reserve, an Isolated Forest Fragment in Western Rwanda

International Journal of Primatology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 479-488

  Chancellor, Rebecca L ^a,b   Langergraber, Kevin ^c,d   Ramirez, Sergio ^c   Rundus, Aaron S ^a,e   Vigilant, Linda ^c  

^a Great Ape Trust   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d USA   (United States)

^e WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genotyping; Mark recapture; Noninvasive sampling; Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONDITIONS; CHROMOSOME; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PRIMATE; SAMPLING;

GISHWATI FOREST RESERVE; RWANDA; WEST PROVINCE;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES SCHWEINFURTHII; PRIMATES;

EID: 84858781865     PISSN: 01640291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10764-012-9591-6     Document Type: Article

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