Heavily male-biased long-distance dispersal of orang-utans (genus: Pongo), as revealed by Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial genetic markers

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 3173-3186

  Nietlisbach, Pirmin ^a   Arora, Natasha ^a   Nater, Alexander ^a   Goossens, Benoit ^b,c   Van Schaik, Carel P ^a   Krützen, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

conservation; great apes; isolation by distance; male specific markers; orang utan; sex biased dispersal

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; INDONESIA; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORANG UTAN; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; INDONESIA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 84862761821     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05539.x     Document Type: Article

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