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SUBMITTER: Elango N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2679907 | biostudies-other | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Elango Navin N Lee Jeeyoung J Peng Zuogang Z Loh Yong-Hwee E YH Yi Soojin V SV
Biology letters 20090304 3
We analysed over 8 million base pairs of bacterial artificial chromosome-based sequence alignments of four Old World monkeys and the human genome. Our findings are as follows. (i) Genomic divergences among several Old World monkeys mirror those between well-studied hominoids. (ii) The X-chromosome evolves slower than autosomes, in accord with 'male-driven evolution'. However, the degree of male mutation bias is lower in Old World monkeys than in hominoids. (iii) Evolutionary rates vary significa ...[more]