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Reconstruction of molecular phylogeny of extant hominoids from DNA sequence data
Author(s) -
Saitou Naruya
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.1330840107
Subject(s) - extant taxon , biology , phylogenetic tree , mitochondrial dna , evolutionary biology , sequence (biology) , phylogenetics , dna , dna sequencing , nuclear dna , genetics , gene
Evolutionary distance matrices of the extant hominoids are computed from DNA sequence data, and hominoid DNA phylogenies are reconstructed by applying the neighbor‐joining method to these distance matrices. The chimpanzee is clustered with the human in most of the phylogenetic trees thus obtained. The proportion of the distance between human and chimpanzee to that between human/chimpanzee and orangutan is estimated. Both mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA show a similar value (0.44), which is close to values derived from DNA‐DNA hybridization data.