Genetic structure of chimpanzee populations.

Little is known about the history and population structure of our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, in part because of an extremely poor fossil record. To address this, we report the largest genetic study of the chimpanzees to date, examining 310 microsatellites in 84 common chimpanzees and...

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Main Authors: Celine Becquet, Nick Patterson, Anne C Stone, Molly Przeworski, David Reich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-04-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.0030066