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The genome of the vervet (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus)

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Title
The genome of the vervet (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus)
Published in
Genome Research, September 2015
DOI 10.1101/gr.192922.115
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Authors

Wesley C. Warren, Anna J. Jasinska, Raquel García-Pérez, Hannes Svardal, Chad Tomlinson, Mariano Rocchi, Nicoletta Archidiacono, Oronzo Capozzi, Patrick Minx, Michael J. Montague, Kim Kyung, LaDeana W. Hillier, Milinn Kremitzki, Tina Graves, Colby Chiang, Jennifer Hughes, Nam Tran, Yu Huang, Vasily Ramensky, Oi-wa Choi, Yoon J. Jung, Christopher A. Schmitt, Nikoleta Juretic, Jessica Wasserscheid, Trudy R. Turner, Roger W. Wiseman, Jennifer J. Tuscher, Julie A. Karl, Jörn E. Schmitz, Roland Zahn, David H. O'Connor, Eugene Redmond, Alex Nisbett, Béatrice Jacquelin, Michaela C. Müller-Trutwin, Jason M. Brenchley, Michel Dione, Martin Antonio, Gary P. Schroth, Jay R. Kaplan, Matthew J. Jorgensen, Gregg W.C. Thomas, Matthew W. Hahn, Brian J. Raney, Bronwen Aken, Rishi Nag, Juergen Schmitz, Gennady Churakov, Angela Noll, Roscoe Stanyon, David Webb, Francoise Thibaud-Nissen, Magnus Nordborg, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Ken Dewar, George M. Weinstock, Richard K. Wilson, Nelson B. Freimer

Abstract

We describe a genome reference of the African green monkey or vervet (Chlorocebus aethiops). This member of the Old World monkey (OWM) superfamily is uniquely valuable for genetic investigations of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), of which it is the most abundant natural host species, and of a wide range of health-related phenotypes assessed in Caribbean vervets (C. a. sabaeus), whose numbers have expanded dramatically since Europeans introduced small numbers of their ancestors from West Africa during the colonial era. We use the reference to characterize the genomic relationship between vervets and other primates, the intrageneric phylogeny of vervet subspecies, and genome-wide structural variations of a pedigreed C. a. sabaeus population. Through comparative analyses with human and rhesus macaque, we characterize at high resolution the unique chromosomal fission events that differentiate the vervets and their close relatives from most other catarrhine primates, in whom karyotype is highly conserved. We also provide a summary of transposable elements and contrast these with the rhesus macaque and human. Analysis of sequenced genomes representing each of the main vervet subspecies supports previously hypothesized relationships between these populations, which range across most of sub-Saharan Africa, while uncovering high levels of genetic diversity within each. Sequence-based analyses of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) polymorphisms reveal extremely low diversity in Caribbean C. a. sabaeus vervets, as compared to vervets from putatively ancestral West African regions. In the C. a. sabaeus research population we discover the first structural variations that are in some cases predicted to have a deleterious effect; future studies will determine the phenotypic impact of these variations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 105 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 19%
Researcher 14 13%
Student > Master 14 13%
Student > Bachelor 13 12%
Other 6 6%
Other 20 19%
Unknown 19 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 37 35%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 23 22%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 3%
Engineering 3 3%
Other 12 11%
Unknown 23 22%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 May 2023.
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#1,139,669
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#499
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