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The genetic impact of an Ebola outbreak on a wild gorilla population

2021-05-31

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<h4>Background</h4> Numerous Ebola virus outbreaks have occurred in Equatorial Africa over the past decades. Besides human fatalities, gorillas and chimpanzees have also succumbed to the fatal virus. The 2004 outbreak at the Odzala-Kokoua National Park (Republic of Congo) alone caused a severe decline in the resident western lowland gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla gorilla ) population, with a 95% mortality rate. Here,...

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Literature Corpus work: 69ac42d5-b27e-5149-a72a-e0c04217ce93
DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.31.446409

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