A Fine-Scale Genetic Map for Vervet Monkeys.

ABSTRACT: Despite its important biological role, the evolution of recombination rates remains relatively poorly characterized. This owes, in part, to the lack of high-quality genomic resources to address this question across diverse species. Humans and our closest evolutionary relatives, anthropoid apes, have remained a major focus of large-scale sequencing efforts, and thus recombination rate variation has been comparatively well studied in this group-with earlier work revealing a conservation at the broad- but not the fine-scale. However, in order to better understand the nature of this variation, and the time scales on which substantial modifications occur, it is necessary to take a broader phylogenetic perspective. I here present the first fine-scale genetic map for vervet monkeys based on whole

SUBMITTER: Pfeifer SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7825483 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature