{"id":140173,"date":"2022-06-05T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-produce-chimp-genetic-map-to-combat-trafficking"},"modified":"2022-06-05T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T18:03:09","slug":"scientists-produce-chimp-genetic-map-to-combat-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-produce-chimp-genetic-map-to-combat-trafficking","title":{"rendered":"Scientists produce chimp genetic map to combat trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-produce-chimp-genetic-map-to-combat-trafficking.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have produced the first genetic map of chimpanzees in the wild, offering a detailed reconstruction of the endangered species\u2019 past migrations, and a new tool to combat illegal trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>The genomic catalogue, which includes 828 individuals from across their vast African range, can now be used to link kidnapped chimpanzees\u2014or their meat and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/body+parts\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">body parts <\/a>\u2014to their place of origin within 100 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the years-long research project was published Wednesday in the journal Cell Genomics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have produced the first genetic map of chimpanzees in the wild, offering a detailed reconstruction of the endangered species\u2019 past migrations, and a new tool to combat illegal trafficking. The genomic catalogue, which includes 828 individuals from across their vast African range, can now be used to link kidnapped chimpanzees\u2014or their meat and body [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}