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Y-chromosome analysis confirms highly sex-biased dispersal and suggests a low male effective population size in bonobos (Pan paniscus).
Molecular ecology - 1 Apr 2006
Eriksson Jonas, Siedel Heike, Lukas Dieter, Kayser Manfred, Erler Axel, Hashimoto Chie, Hohmann Gottfried, Boesch Christophe, Vigilant Linda
Abstract excerpt
Dispersal is a rare event that is difficult to observe in slowly maturing, long-lived wild animal species such as the bonobo. In this study we used sex-linked (mitochondrial DNA sequence and Y-chromosome microsatellite) markers from the same set of individuals to estimate the magnitude of difference in effective dispersal between the sexes and to investigate the long-term demographic history of bonobos. We...
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