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CATALAN BARCELONA // >> Ten years after the death of Snowflake, a team of researchers decoded the genome of white gorilla in Barcelona Zoo and clarified the mystery of his albinism: inbreeding. Based on a small sample of blood from Snowflake, researchers Thomas Marquis and Javier Prado, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University Pompeu Fabra, in collaboration with the National Center for Genome Analysis, have been sequenced genome the Floquet. Comparing it with the normal gorillas, have discovered that the Floquet had a rare mutation that affected the production of melanin and causes albinism, who said that he inherited both his father and his mother. Both parents, who had been carrying, descended from the same family, were uncle and niece. That is, the Snowflake prosind bh is the result of inbreeding family.
The Snowflake which arrived in Barcelona in November 1966 and died in 2003, 37 years later-was the father of 21 gorillas, males and females. Zoo Barcelona still lives a daughter, four grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. But for zoos around the world there are also many more scattered their descendants.
This discovery is technically facilitate obtaining another white gorilla, prosind bh although none s'ho zoo raises and rule making crosses for another one alleging ethical reasons. "Technically it is possible to obtain a white gorilla, but is ethically reprovable," he said in this regard researcher Thomas Marquis.
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