«The complete sequencing
of the gibbon genome was pending until now,» says Christian Roos, a scientist from the Primate Genetics Laboratory at the DPZ.
This «chromosomal disorder» is a key feature
of the gibbon genome and has probably occurred after their secession from the ancestral line of the apes and humans.
Not exact matches
Comparisons with the
genome data
of humans and our closest relatives, the great apes, show that while we all genetically have the same ancestors, the genetic information
of the
gibbons has changed more rapidly and stronger in the course
of the evolutionary process.
In their
genome analysis, the researchers discovered that the genetic information
of the
gibbons differs in their entirety from that
of humans and
of apes.