Western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) is a species of primate in the family Hominidae (great apes). The reference sequence is from the fibroblast of a male and mature gorilla. The size of the genome is of 3500 Mb, the number of coding genes are 22365 and they have 24 chromosomes.

The article where the genome of the species was published for the first time is https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22398555/ and the publication date is 03/07/2012.

Author: Laia Molina Mora