April 10, 2015, 16:34 Washington, April 10 (Prensa Latina) New research on mountain gorillas revealed that endangered species are genetically adapted to survive in small populations, published today in the journal Science.
Although mountain gorillas are widely inbred, the study shows that precisely because of this factor lost many harmful genetic variations for your development as a species.
These primates are among the most intensively studied in nature, but this is the first analysis its entire genome in depth, said researcher Chris Tyler-Smith of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK.
Three years after sequencing the genome reference gorilla, we can now compare the genomes of all gorilla populations, including the mountain gorilla critically endangered, and begin to understand their similarities and differences, and genetic impact of inbreeding, Tyler-Smith said.
The number of gorillas Mountain living in the volcanic Virunga Mountains Park on the border of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, decreased to approximately 253 in 1981 as a result of habitat destruction and hunting.
Since then, conservation efforts led by the Rwanda Development Board and conservation organizations as Gorilla Doctors have raised the figure to about 480 in the town of Virunga
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