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A molecular phylogeny of living primates.
PLoS genetics - 1 Mar 2011
Perelman Polina, Johnson Warren E, Roos Christian, Seuánez Hector N, Horvath Julie E, Moreira Miguel A M, Kessing Bailey, Pontius Joan, Roelke Melody, Rumpler Yves, Schneider Maria Paula C, Silva Artur, O'Brien Stephen J, Pecon-Slattery Jill
Abstract excerpt
Comparative genomic analyses of primates offer considerable potential to define and understand the processes that mold, shape, and transform the human genome. However, primate taxonomy is both complex and controversial, with marginal unifying consensus of the evolutionary hierarchy of extant primate species. Here we provide new genomic sequence (~8 Mb) from 186 primates representing 61 (~90%) of the described...
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