A new west African chimpanzee subspecies?

M. Katherine Gonder, John F. Oates, Todd R. Disotell, Michael R. J. Forstner, Juan Carlos Morales and Don J. Melnick
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M. Katherine Gonder: Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, Hunter College
John F. Oates: Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, Hunter College
Todd R. Disotell: New York University
Michael R. J. Forstner: Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
Juan Carlos Morales: Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
Don J. Melnick: Columbia University

Nature, 1997, vol. 388, issue 6640, 337-337

Abstract: Abstract We have sequenced a portion of the mitochondrial DNA control region from the hairs of Nigerian chimpanzees living on both sides of the Niger River, which is proposed as a biogeographic boundary. Our data suggest that a previously unrecognized type of chimpanzee may be present in Nigeria and adjacent parts of Cameroon, and that the zoogeographic barriers separating chimpanzees are different from those previously proposed.

Date: 1997
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