An international team of experts has compiled the world’s largest wild chimp genomic catalog by sequencing DNA found in hundreds of samples of ape feces.
The team was led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA) and Leipzig University.
A statement obtained from iDiv revealed that the experts had harvested genomic information from hundreds of chimp fecal samples.
