Northern Greater Galago
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
![]() |
||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||||||||||||||||
Scientific classification | ||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
Otolemur garnettii (Ogilby, 1838) |
The Northern Greater Galago (Otolemur garnettii), also known as Garnett's Greater Galago, is a prosimian primate endemic to Africa.
A low-coverage genomic sequence of the Northern Greater Galago, is in progress. As a 'primitive' primate, the sequence will be particularly useful in bridging the sequences of higher primates (macaque, chimp, human) to close non-primates such as rodents. The 2x planned coverage will not be sufficient to create a full genome assembly, but will provide comparative data across most of the human assembly.
[edit] References
- ^ Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). in Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 126. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
- ^ Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group (2000). Otolemur garnettii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 2006-11-20.