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Zoological Research
Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
ISSN: 2095-8137
Vol. 40, No. 6, 2019, pp. 532-540
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Bioline Code: zr19052
Full paper language: English
Document type: Report
Document available free of charge
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Zoological Research, Vol. 40, No. 6, 2019, pp. 532-540
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Conserved sequences identify the closest living relatives of primates
Zhang, Mei-Ling; Li, Ming-Li; Ayoola, Adeola Oluwakemi; Murphy, Robert W.; Wu, Dong-Dong & Shao, Yong
Abstract
Elucidating the closest living relatives of extant primates is essential for fully understanding important biological processes related to the genomic and phenotypic evolution of primates, especially of humans. However, the phylogenetic placement of these primate relatives remains controversial, with three primary hypotheses currently espoused based on morphological and molecular evidence. In the present study, we used two algorithms to analyze differently partitioned genomic datasets consisting of 45.4 Mb of conserved non-coding elements and 393 kb of concatenated coding sequences to test these hypotheses. We assessed different genomic histories and compared with other molecular studies found solid support for colugos being the closest living relatives of primates. Our phylogeny showed Cercopithecinae to have low levels of nucleotide divergence, especially for Papionini, and gibbons to have a high rate of divergence. The MCMCtree comprehensively updated divergence dates of early evolution of Primatomorpha and Primates.
Keywords
Phylogeny; Colugos; Primates; Conserved non-coding elements; Divergence time
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