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Major histocompatibility complex and microsatellite variation in two populations of wild gorillas.
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2004
Lukas D, Bradley B J, Nsubuga A M, Doran-Sheehy D, Robbins M M, Vigilant L
Abstract excerpt
In comparison to their close relatives the chimpanzees and humans, very little is known concerning the amount and structure of genetic variation in gorillas. Two species of gorillas are recognized and while the western gorillas number in the tens of thousands, only several hundred representatives of the mountain gorilla subspecies of eastern gorillas survive. To analyse the possible effects of these different...
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