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Historical sampling reveals dramatic demographic changes in western gorilla populations

Thalmann, Olaf ; Wegmann, Daniel ; Spitzner, Marie ; Arandjelovic, Mimi ; Guschanski, Katerina ; Leuenberger, Christoph ; Bergl, Richard A ; Vigilant, Linda

In: BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011, vol. 11, p. 85

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...