A new investigation led by Tomàs Marquès-Bonet, an ICREA researcher at the IBE (CSIC-UPF) and a professor of Genetics at the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS) at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Kyle Farh (Illumina), and Jeffrey Rogers (Baylor College of Medicine), combines the genome sequencing of over 800 individuals from 233 primate species, covering nearly half of all existing primate species on Earth, through the study of fossil remains, multiplying by four the number of primate genomes available to date.
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Source: Phys.org