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Population genomics of wild Chinese rhesus macaques reveals a dynamic demographic history and local adaptation, with implications for biomedical research

BACKGROUND: The rhesus macaque (RM, Macaca mulatta) is the most important nonhuman primate model in biomedical research. We present the first genomic survey of wild RMs, sequencing 81 geo-referenced individuals of five subspecies from 17 locations in China, a large fraction of the species’ natural d...

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Autores principales: Liu, Zhijin, Tan, Xinxin, Orozco-terWengel, Pablo, Zhou, Xuming, Zhang, Liye, Tian, Shilin, Yan, Zhongze, Xu, Huailiang, Ren, Baoping, Zhang, Peng, Xiang, Zuofu, Sun, Binghua, Roos, Christian, Bruford, Michael W, Li, Ming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6143732/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30165519
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy106