Great Ape Genomics
Great Ape Genomics
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DOI：
10.1093/ilar/ilt048
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发表时间：
2013-01-01
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Wall, Jeffrey D.
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作者：
Wall, Jeffrey D.
类人猿家族是与我们人类关系最密切的物种，包括黑猩猩、倭黑猩猩、大猩猩和猩猩。它们只生活在中非和东南亚岛屿的热带雨林中。由于它们与人类的密切进化关系，类人猿与人类有许多认知、生理和形态上的相似之处。大猿家族的成员为进一步了解人类的生物学和历史提供了明显的模式。这篇综述将讨论最近增加的类人猿全基因组数据如何促进人类对这些物种和人类的理解，特别是在进化遗传学领域。
The great ape families are the species most closely related to our own, comprising chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. They live exclusively in tropical rainforests in Central Africa and the islands of Southeast Asia. Due to their close evolutionary relationship with humans, great apes share many cognitive, physiological, and morphological similarities with humans. The members of the great ape family make obvious models to facilitate the further understanding about humans biology and history. This review will discuss how the recent addition of genome-wide data from great apes has furthered humans understanding of these species and humanity, especially in the realm of evolutionary genetics.