a Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire du C.N.T.S., 75015, Paris, France
b Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Physique du Collège de France, 75005, Paris, France
Abstract:
Highly repeated DNA sequences from two baboon species (Papio papio and P. cynocephalus) have been compared using restriction endonucleases. The two species share a 343 base pairs tandemly repeated DNA, that is cut once by Bam HI. Papio cynocephalus differs from P. papio by loss of an EcoRI star site in the repeated sequence.