Scientific Name	Gorilla gorilla
Common Name	gorilla; Troglodytes gorilla;
Taxonomy ID	9593
Lineage	cellular organisms > Eukaryota > Opisthokonta > Metazoa > Eumetazoa > Bilateria > Deuterostomia > Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Teleostomi > Euteleostomi > Sarcopterygii > Dipnotetrapodomorpha > Tetrapoda > Amniota > Mammalia > Theria > Eutheria > Boreoeutheria > Euarchontoglires > Primates > Haplorrhini > Simiiformes > Catarrhini > Hominoidea > Hominidae > Homininae > Gorilla
External Links	NCBI;
Representative Assembly	gorGor4	GCF_000151905.2	DNA GFF RNA Protein

Description:

Gorillas diverged from the human lineage one to two million years before chimpanzees and humans diverged from one another and, within approximately the past two million years, gorillas further speciated into western (Gorilla gorilla) and eastern (Gorilla beringei) gorilla species. The genome sequence of the gorilla will enable scientists to better distinguish whether differences between chimpanzees and humans arose along the human or the chimpanzee evolutionary lineage. The gorilla diploid genome is organized in 23 pairs of autosomes and two sex chromosomes.