Biology Faculty Articles
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-17-2011
Publication Title
PLoS ONE
ISSN
1932-6203
Volume
7
Issue/No.
3 e1001342
First Page
1
Last Page
17
Abstract
Comparative genomic analyses of primates offer considerable potential to define and understand the processes that mold, shape, and transform the human genome. However, primate taxonomy is both complex and controversial, with marginal unifying consensus of the evolutionary hierarchy of extant primate species. Here we provide new genomic sequence (~8 Mb) from 186 primates representing 61 (~90%) of the described genera, and we include outgroup species from Dermoptera, Scandentia, and Lagomorpha. The resultant phylogeny is exceptionally robust and illuminates events in primate evolution from ancient to recent, clarifying numerous taxonomic controversies and providing new data on human evolution. Ongoing speciation, reticulate evolution, ancient relic lineages, unequal rates of evolution, and disparate distributions of insertions/deletions among the reconstructed primate lineages are uncovered. Our resolution of the primate phylogeny provides an essential evolutionary framework with far-reaching applications including: human selection and adaptation, global emergence of zoonotic diseases, mammalian comparative genomics, primate taxonomy, and conservation of endangered species.
Additional Comments
National Cancer Institute contract #: N01-CO-12400; CNPq grant #s: 303583/2007-0, 304403/2008-3
NSUWorks Citation
Perelman, Polina L.; Warren E. Johnson; Christian Roos; Hector Seuanez; Julie E. Horvath; Miguel A. M. Moreira; Bailey Kessing; J. U. Pontius; Melody E. Roelke; Yves Rumpler; Maria P. C. Schneider; Artur Silva; Stephen J. O'Brien; and Jill Pecon-Slattery. 2011. "A Molecular Phylogeny of Living Primates." PLoS ONE 7, (3 e1001342): 1-17. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cnso_bio_facarticles/763
ORCID ID
0000-0001-7353-8301
ResearcherID
N-1726-2015
Comments
This is an open-access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.