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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Bonobos fall within the genomic variation of Chimpanzees
PLoS ONE, Volume 6, No. 6, Article e21605, Year 2011
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To gain insight into the patterns of genetic variation and evolutionary relationships within and between bonobos and chimpanzees, we sequenced 150,000 base pairs of nuclear DNA divided among 15 autosomal regions as well as the complete mitochondrial genomes from 20 bonobos and 58 chimpanzees. Except for western chimpanzees, we found poor genetic separation of chimpanzees based on sample locality. In contrast, bonobos consistently cluster together but fall as a group within the variation of chimpanzees for many of the regions. Thus, while chimpanzees retain genomic variation that predates bonobo-chimpanzee speciation, extensive lineage sorting has occurred within bonobos such that much of their genome traces its ancestry back to a single common ancestor that postdates their origin as a group separate from chimpanzees. © 2011 Fischer et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Fischer, Anne H.
Germany, Leipzig
Max-planck-institut Für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
Kenya, Nairobi
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology Nairobi
Prüfer, Kay
Germany, Leipzig
Max-planck-institut Für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
Good, Jeffrey M.
Germany, Leipzig
Max-planck-institut Für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
United States, Missoula
University of Montana
Halbwax, Michel
Germany, Leipzig
Max-planck-institut Für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
Gabon
Fernan Vaz Gorilla Project
Wiebe, Victor P.
Germany, Leipzig
Max-planck-institut Für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
André, Claudine
Unknown Affiliation
Atencia, Rebeca
United States, Washington, D.c.
The Jane Goodall Institute
Mugisha, Lawrence
Uganda
Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust Cswct
Ptak, Susan E.
Germany, Leipzig
Max-planck-institut Für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
Pääbo, Svante
Germany, Leipzig
Max-planck-institut Für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
Statistics
Citations: 70
Authors: 10
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0021605
e-ISSN:
19326203
Research Areas
Cancer
Genetics And Genomics
Health System And Policy