Platy-1 SINEs from Thirteen Diverse Genomes Reveal Callithrichidae Unique Amplification, Recent Alouatta Mobilization and Insights into Platyrrhine Phylogenetics.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

In 2023, we reported that the tamarins (genus Saguinus) Saguinus imperator and Saguinus midas have had an extensive independent expansion of Platy-1 SINEs compared to previously characterized platyrrhine genomes among traditional cebids. This study investigates the amplification dynamics of Platy-1 insertions across thirteen diverse genomes representing each Platyrrhini family, including two from Pitheciidae and three from Atelidae.

Methods

By comparing the distribution of Platy-1 subfamily content, total interspersed repeat content and the proximity of Platy-1 insertions to, or within, other repeats across evolutionary taxa, this study begins to identify genomic landscape features that are unique to family Callithrichidae that corr

SUBMITTER: Storer JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12840619 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature