The genome sequencing of an albino Western lowland gorilla reveals inbreeding in the wild

BACKGROUND: The only known albino gorilla, named Snowflake, was a male wild born individual from Equatorial Guinea who lived at the Barcelona Zoo for almost 40 years. He was diagnosed with non-syndromic oculocutaneous albinism, i.e. white hair, light eyes, pink skin, photophobia and reduced visual a...

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Autores principales: Prado-Martinez, Javier, Hernando-Herraez, Irene, Lorente-Galdos, Belen, Dabad, Marc, Ramirez, Oscar, Baeza-Delgado, Carlos, Morcillo-Suarez, Carlos, Alkan, Can, Hormozdiari, Fereydoun, Raineri, Emanuele, Estellé, Jordi, Fernandez-Callejo, Marcos, Valles, Mònica, Ritscher, Lars, Schöneberg, Torsten, de la Calle-Mustienes, Elisa, Casillas, Sònia, Rubio-Acero, Raquel, Melé, Marta, Engelken, Johannes, Caceres, Mario, Gomez-Skarmeta, Jose Luis, Gut, Marta, Bertranpetit, Jaume, Gut, Ivo G, Abello, Teresa, Eichler, Evan E, Mingarro, Ismael, Lalueza-Fox, Carles, Navarro, Arcadi, Marques-Bonet, Tomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23721540
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-363

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