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Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the Eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei) and implications for african ape biogeography.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Das Ranajit, Hergenrother Scott D, Soto-Calderón Iván D, Dew J Larry, Anthony Nicola M, Jensen-Seaman Michael I
Abstract excerpt
The Western and Eastern species of gorillas (Gorilla gorilla and Gorilla beringei) began diverging in the mid-Pleistocene, but in a complex pattern with ongoing gene flow following their initial split. We sequenced the complete mitochondrial genomes of 1 Eastern and 1 Western gorilla to provide the most accurate date for their mitochondrial divergence, and to analyze patterns of nucleotide substitutions. The most...
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