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Population genomic analysis reveals a rich speciation and demographic history of orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii).
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Ma Xin, Kelley Joanna L, Eilertson Kirsten, Musharoff Shaila, Degenhardt Jeremiah D, Martins André L, Vinar Tomas, Kosiol Carolin, Siepel Adam, Gutenkunst Ryan N, Bustamante Carlos D
Abstract excerpt
To gain insights into evolutionary forces that have shaped the history of Bornean and Sumatran populations of orang-utans, we compare patterns of variation across more than 11 million single nucleotide polymorphisms found by previous mitochondrial and autosomal genome sequencing of 10 wild-caught orang-utans. Our analysis of the mitochondrial data yields a far more ancient split time between the two populations...
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