The extent of wildlife crime is unknown but it is on the increase and has observable effects
with the dramatic decline in many species of flora and fauna. The growing awareness of this …

Mountain gorillas are an endangered great ape subspecies and a prominent focus for
conservation, yet we know little about their genomic diversity and evolutionary past. We …

The accumulation of biodiversity in tropical forests can occur through multiple allopatric and
parapatric models of diversification, including forest refugia, riverine barriers and ecological …

The role of Pleistocene forest refugia and rivers in the evolutionary diversification of tropical
biota has been the subject of considerable debate. A range-wide analysis of gorilla …

The study of genetic exchange resulting from natural hybridization, horizontal gene transfer,
and viral recombination has long been marked by controversy between researchers holding …

Gorillas living in western central Africa (Gorilla gorilla) are morphologically and genetically
distinguishable from those living in eastern central Africa (Gorilla beringei). Genomic …

This book describes one of our closest relatives, the orangutan, and the only extant great
ape in Asia. It is increasingly clear that orangutan populations show extensive variation in …

Research on the genetics of natural populations was revolutionized in the 1990s by
methods for genotyping noninvasively collected samples. However, these methods have …

Relatively little is known about the evolutionary and demographic histories of gorillas, one of
our closest living relatives. In this study, we used samples from both western (Gorilla gorilla) …

We explored two hypotheses related to potential differences between sexes in dispersal
behaviour in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). Direct observations suggest …