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The Role Of Landscape Variation In Shaping The Evolutionary Diversification Of Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes) In A Biodiversity Hotspot, Matthew William Mitchell
The Role Of Landscape Variation In Shaping The Evolutionary Diversification Of Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes) In A Biodiversity Hotspot, Matthew William Mitchell
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
In this dissertation, I combine population genetic and demographic history analyses of autosomal, mitochondrial and Y-chromosome genetic markers with spatially explicit modeling techniques to study the biogeographic mechanisms responsible for shaping patterns of genetic diversity among chimpanzees in Cameroon and eastern Nigeria. I also describe a new software tool, TESS Ad-Mixer, that I developed early on in this study to help visualize the geographic distribution of demes recovered from population cluster analyses.