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dc.contributor.authorLangergraber, Kevin E.
dc.contributor.authorSiedel, Heike
dc.contributor.authorMitani, John C.
dc.contributor.authorReynolds, Vernon
dc.contributor.authorHunt, Kevin
dc.contributor.authorVigilant, Linda
dc.contributor.authorWrangham, Richard W.
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-06T20:21:15Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationLangergraber, Kevin E., Heike Siedel, John C. Matani, Richard W. Wrangham, Vernon Reynolds, Kevin Hunt, and Linda Vigilant. 2007. The genetic signature of sex-biased migration in patrilocal chimpanzees and humans. PLoS ONE 2(10): e973.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4460830
dc.description.abstractA large body of theoretical work suggests that analyses of variation at the maternally inherited mitochondrial (mt)DNA and the paternally inherited non-recombining portion of the Y chromosome (NRY) are a potentially powerful way to reveal the differing migratory histories of men and women across human societies. However, the few empirical studies comparing mtDNA and NRY variation and known patterns of sex-biased migration have produced conflicting results. Here we review some methodological reasons for these inconsistencies, and take them into account to provide an unbiased characterization of mtDNA and NRY variation in chimpanzees, one of the few mammalian taxa where males routinely remain in and females typically disperse from their natal groups. We show that patterns of mtDNA and NRY variation are more strongly contrasting in patrilocal chimpanzees compared with patrilocal human societies. The chimpanzee data we present here thus provide a valuable comparative benchmark of the patterns of mtDNA and NRY variation to be expected in a society with extremely female-biased dispersal.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAnthropologyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipHuman Evolutionary Biologyen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_US
dc.relation.isversionofdoi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000973en_US
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1989134/pdf/en_US
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dc.subjectecologyen_US
dc.subjectbehavioral ecologyen_US
dc.subjectanimal behavioren_US
dc.subjectevolutionary biologyen_US
dc.subjectanimal geneticsen_US
dc.titleThe Genetic Signature of Sex-Biased Migration in Patrilocal Chimpanzees and Humansen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.versionVersion of Recorden_US
dc.relation.journalPLoS ONEen_US
dash.depositing.authorWrangham, Richard W.
dc.date.available2010-10-06T20:21:15Z
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0000973*
dash.authorsorderedfalse
dash.contributor.affiliatedWrangham, Richard


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