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Skewed matrilineal genetic composition in a small wild chimpanzee community.
Folia primatologica; international journal of primatology - 1 Jan 2009
Shimada Makoto K, Hayakawa Sachiko, Fujita Shiho, Sugiyama Yukimaru, Saitou Naruya
Abstract excerpt
Maternal kinship is important in primate societies because it affects individual behaviour as well as the sustainability of populations. All members of the Bossou chimpanzee community are descended from 8 individuals (herein referred to as original adults) who were already adults or subadults when field observations were initiated in 1976 and whose genetic relationships were unknown. Sequencing of the control...
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