Long-read assembly of the Chinese rhesus macaque genome and identification of ape-specific structural variants

Comparative genomic analysis of human and primate relatives can reveal important biological and evolutionary insights. Here, the authors present a long-read assembly of the Chinese rhesus macaque genome and identify ape-specific structural variants.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yaoxi He, Xin Luo, Bin Zhou, Ting Hu, Xiaoyu Meng, Peter A. Audano, Zev N. Kronenberg, Evan E. Eichler, Jie Jin, Yongbo Guo, Yanan Yang, Xuebin Qi, Bing Su
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12174-w