Historical sampling reveals dramatic demographic changes in western gorilla populations |
| |
| Authors: | Olaf Thalmann Daniel Wegmann Marie Spitzner Mimi Arandjelovic Katerina Guschanski Christoph Leuenberger Richard A Bergl and Linda Vigilant |
| |
| Institution: | (1) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany;(2) Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, 621 Charles E. Young Dr South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA;(3) D?partement de math?matiques, Universit? de Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland;(4) North Carolina Zoological Park, 4401 Zoo Parkway, Asheboro, NC 27205, USA;(5) Division of Genetics and Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, Vesilinnantie 5, 20014 Turku, Finland |
| |
| Abstract: | Background Today many large mammals live in small, fragmented populations, but it is often unclear whether this subdivision is the result
of long-term or recent events. Demographic modeling using genetic data can estimate changes in long-term population sizes
while temporal sampling provides a way to compare genetic variation present today with that sampled in the past. In order
to better understand the dynamics associated with the divergences of great ape populations, these analytical approaches were
applied to western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) and in particular to the isolated and Critically Endangered Cross River gorilla subspecies (G. g. diehli). |
| |
| Keywords: | |
| 本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录！ |
|
