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TRENDS IN GENETICS
Volume 18, Issue 7, Pages 327-330Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(02)02695-1
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A new study of Y-chromosome variation has shed fresh light on the population history of the genus Pan, which includes our closest living relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees. The study confirms a great diversity in both species and suggests these species have substantially larger effective population sizes than humans. Y-chromosome lineages appear distinct between bonobos and chimpanzees, and also between the different chimpanzee subspecies. During the Pleistocene, forest fragmentation led to recurrent, transient subdivisions within regional Pan subspecies; did these contribute to their apparently higher effective population sizes?
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