| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Center for Bio-Modular Multiscale Systems, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 70803, LA, USA;(2) Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, 26506, WV, USA |
| Abstract: | Background Alu elements are Short INterspersed Elements (SINEs) in primate genomes that have proven useful as markers for studying genome evolution, population biology and phylogenetics. Most of these applications, however, have been limited to humans and their nearest relatives, chimpanzees. In an effort to expand our understanding of Alu sequence evolution and to increase the applicability of these markers to non-human primate biology, we have analyzed available Alu sequences for loci specific to platyrrhine (New World) primates. |
