Environmental variation and rivers govern the structure of chimpanzee genetic diversity in a biodiversity hotspot

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mitchell, Matthew W ^a,b   Locatelli, Sabrina ^b,c   Sesink Clee, Paul R ^a,b   Thomassen, Henri A ^d   Gonder, Mary Katherine ^a,b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HOMINID; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION STRUCTURE; WILD POPULATION;

CAMEROON; NIGERIA; SANAGA RIVER;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOMINID; PAN TROGLODYTES; POPULATION GENETICS; RIVER;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HOMINIDAE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PAN TROGLODYTES; RIVERS;

EID: 84923912118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0274-0     Document Type: Article

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