Advantages of an Improved Rhesus Macaque Genome for Evolutionary Analyses.

The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) is widely used in molecular evolutionary analyses, particularly to identify genes under adaptive or unique evolution in the human lineage. For such studies, it is necessary to align nucleotide sequences of homologous protein-coding genes among multiple species. Th...

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Main Authors: Julien S Gradnigo, Abhishek Majumdar, Robert B Norgren, Etsuko N Moriyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5135103?pdf=render