Recently Integrated Alu Elements in Capuchin Monkeys: A Resource for Cebus/Sapajus Genomics.

ABSTRACT: Capuchins are platyrrhines (monkeys found in the Americas) within the Cebidae family. For most of their taxonomic history, the two main morphological types of capuchins, gracile (untufted) and robust (tufted), were assigned to a single genus, Cebus. Further, all tufted capuchins were assigned to a single species, Cebus apella, despite broad geographic ranges spanning Central and northern South America. In 2012, tufted capuchins were assigned to their genus, Sapajus, with eight currently recognized species and five Cebus species, although these numbers are still under debate. Alu retrotransposons are a class of mobile element insertion (MEI) widely used to study primate phylogenetics. However, Alu elements have rarely been used to study capuchins. R

SUBMITTER: Storer JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9030454 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature