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Bonobos fall within the genomic variation of chimpanzees.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Fischer Anne, Prüfer Kay, Good Jeffrey M, Halbwax Michel, Wiebe Victor, André Claudine, Atencia Rebeca, Mugisha Lawrence, Ptak Susan E, Pääbo Svante
Abstract excerpt
To gain insight into the patterns of genetic variation and evolutionary relationships within and between bonobos and chimpanzees, we sequenced 150,000 base pairs of nuclear DNA divided among 15 autosomal regions as well as the complete mitochondrial genomes from 20 bonobos and 58 chimpanzees. Except for western chimpanzees, we found poor genetic separation of chimpanzees based on sample locality. In contrast,...
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