Are you claiming that Wilson would in fact say something like that about squirrels? If so, why? If not, then what scientist agrees with you if neither Dawkins nor his rival Wilson?

More to the point, that quote doesn't refer to the information content of genes at all. You'll certainly agree that it doesn't do so explicitly. Can you find a quote that explicitly says that someone disagrees with Dawkins about the information content of genes? Maybe in the Wikipedia articles for gene selection and kin selection?