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Comparative genomic analyses provide new insights into evolutionary history and conservation genomics of gorillas

BMC Ecology and Evolution
Genome sequencing is a powerful tool to understand species evolutionary history, uncover genes under selection, which could be informative of local adaptation, and infer measures of genetic diversity, inbreeding and mutational load that could be used to ...
Tom van der Valk, Axel Jensen, Damien Caillaud, Katerina Guschanski   +3 more
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Human Metapneumovirus Infection in Wild Mountain Gorillas, Rwanda

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011
The genetic relatedness of mountain gorillas and humans has led to concerns about interspecies transmission of infectious agents. Human-to-gorilla transmission may explain human metapneumovirus in 2 wild mountain gorillas that died during a respiratory ...
Gustavo Palacios, Linda J. Lowenstine, Michael R. Cranfield, Kirsten V.K. Gilardi, Lucy Spelman, Magda Lukasik-Braum, Jean-Felix Kinani, Antoine Mudakikwa, Elisabeth Nyirakaragire, Ana Valeria Bussetti, Nazir Savji, Stephen Hutchison, Michael Egholm, W. Ian Lipkin   +13 more
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Exploring the potential effect of COVID-19 on an endangered great ape

Scientific Reports, 2021
The current COVID-19 pandemic has created unmeasurable damages to society at a global level, from the irreplaceable loss of life, to the massive economic losses. In addition, the disease threatens further biodiversity loss. Due to their shared physiology
Fernando Colchero, Winnie Eckardt, Tara Stoinski   +2 more
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The “costly son” hypothesis: Sons exacerbate obstetrical dilemmas in humans and other mammals

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Human childbirth has often been considered uniquely difficult among mammals, yet recent evidence suggests that obstructed labor and fetopelvic disproportion are widespread across placental mammals. Here, we propose the “costly son” hypothesis: because male offspring are typically larger at birth, they impose greater obstetric risk on mothers ...
Nicole D. S. Grunstra, Jonathan C. K. Wells   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Molecular and classical cytogenetic analyses demonstrate an apomorphic reciprocal chromosomal translocation in Gorilla gorilla [PDF]

, 1992
The existence of an apomorphic reciprocal chromosomal translocation in the gorilla lineage has been asserted or denied by various cytogeneticists. We employed a new molecular cytogenetic strategy (chromosomal in situ suppression hybridization) combined ...
Stanyon, Roscoe, Cremer, Thomas, Romagno, D., Wienberg, Johannes, A. Jauch, T. Cremer, Bigoni, F., J. Wienberg, F. Bigoni, D. Romagno, Jauch, Anna, R. Stanyon   +11 more
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Infant Mortality Risk and Paternity Certainty Are Associated with Postnatal Maternal Behavior toward Adult Male Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Sexually selected infanticide is an important source of infant mortality in many mammalian species. In species with long-term male-female associations, females may benefit from male protection against infanticidal outsiders.
Stacy Rosenbaum, Jean Paul Hirwa, Joan B Silk, Linda Vigilant, Tara S Stoinski   +4 more
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And then there was us Et puis nous sommes apparus

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In 1987, the academic conference ‘Origins and Dispersals of Modern Humans: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives’ was held in Cambridge, UK. Subsequently referred to as the ‘Human Revolution’ conference, this meeting brought together the most prominent academics working in the field of human origins, including archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists,
Emma E. Bird, Julia Galway‐Witham, Chris Stringer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Molecular characterisation of protist parasites in human-habituated mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei), humans and livestock, from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda

Parasites & Vectors, 2017
Background Over 60 % of human emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, and there is growing evidence of the zooanthroponotic transmission of diseases from humans to livestock and wildlife species, with major implications for public health, economics ...
Matthew J. Nolan, Melisa Unger, Yuen-Ting Yeap, Emma Rogers, Ilary Millet, Kimberley Harman, Mark Fox, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Damer P. Blake   +8 more
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The importance of message framing in rule compliance by visitors during wildlife tourism

Conservation Science and Practice, 2021
A conundrum of wildlife tourism is balancing wildlife conservation and tourist satisfaction. Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei) are a flagship species for biodiversity and there is worldwide interest in gorilla trekking safaris.
Simplicious J. Gessa, Jessica M. Rothman
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Genotyping Contemporary Captive and Historical Wild Western Lowland Gorillas Indicates Captive Breeding Is Maintaining Genetic Diversity in a Critically Endangered Primate

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Captive populations of threatened species risk losing genetic diversity over time. We evaluated the genetic status of contemporary captive western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) at Howletts and Port Lympne and compared this with specimens from a historical wild population.
Jaimie Morris, Tony King, John Hills, Simon C. Harvey, Jane Hopper, Rodrigo Vega   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source