A focus of socioecological research is to understand how ecological, social, and life history
factors influence the variability of social organization within and between species. The …

The great apes are the closest living relatives of humans. Chimpanzees and bonobos group
together with humans, while gorillas and orangutans are more divergent from humans. Here …

Natural history collections have long been used by morphologists, anatomists, and
taxonomists to probe the evolutionary process and describe biological diversity. These …

Anthropogenic activities are causing a steep decline of wildlife populations. Increased
inbreeding in shrinking populations can substantially curb individual fitness and population …

Although population-level genomic sequence data have been gathered extensively for
humans, similar data from our closest living relatives are just beginning to emerge …

Gorilla gorilla has a large geographic range, covering over 700,000 km². The size of the
population in 2013 was estimated to be almost 362,000 individuals (Strindberg et al. 2018) …

The critically endangered western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) are divided into two subspecies:
the western lowland (G. g. gorilla) and the Cross River (G. g. diehli) gorilla. Given the …

The study of the genetic and selective landscape of immunity genes across primates can
provide insight into the existing differences in susceptibility to infection observed between …

Habitat loss and fragmentation are among the major threats to wildlife populations in tropical
forests. Loss of habitat reduces the carrying capacity of the landscape and fragmentation …

Genome sequencing is a powerful tool to understand species evolutionary history, uncover
genes under selection, which could be informative of local adaptation, and infer measures of …