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Environmental variation and rivers govern the structure of chimpanzee genetic diversity in a biodiversity hotspot

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, January 2015
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Title
Environmental variation and rivers govern the structure of chimpanzee genetic diversity in a biodiversity hotspot
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, January 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12862-014-0274-0
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Authors

Matthew W Mitchell, Sabrina Locatelli, Paul R Sesink Clee, Henri A Thomassen, Mary Katherine Gonder

Abstract

The mechanisms that underlie the diversification of tropical animals remain poorly understood, but new approaches that combine geo-spatial modeling with spatially explicit genetic data are providing fresh insights on this topic. Data about the diversification of tropical mammals remain particularly sparse, and vanishingly few opportunities exist to study endangered large mammals that increasingly exist only in isolated pockets. The chimpanzees of Cameroon represent a unique opportunity to examine the mechanisms that promote genetic differentiation in tropical mammals because the region is home to two chimpanzee subspecies: Pan troglodytes ellioti and P. t. trogolodytes. Their ranges converge in central Cameroon, which is a geographically, climatically and environmentally complex region that presents an unparalleled opportunity to examine the roles of rivers and/or environmental variation in influencing the evolution of chimpanzee populations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Cameroon 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 111 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 25%
Student > Master 21 18%
Researcher 15 13%
Student > Bachelor 14 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 10%
Other 11 9%
Unknown 14 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 61 53%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 14%
Environmental Science 15 13%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 3%
Other 3 3%
Unknown 15 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 57. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 September 2015.
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#740,756
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Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#147
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#9,609
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#4
of 62 outputs
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