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A Reassessment of the Genomic Ancestry of the World's Largest Captive Baboon Colony.
American journal of primatology - 1 Nov 2025
Mercuri Giacomo, Dallaspezia Fabrizio, Montinaro Francesco, Capelli Cristian
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The Southwest National Primate Research Center of San Antonio, Texas, hosts one of the largest captive colonies of baboons used for biomedical research. Pedigreed animals can be traced back to the second part of the last century from individuals of two Papio species: P. anubis and P. cynocephalus. We leveraged recently published genomic data from more than 800 baboons to investigate the ancestry profile of the...
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