Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 111, No. 46 (November 18, 2014), pp. 16448-16453 (6 pages) Hybridization plays an important role in the evolution ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos diverged comparatively recently in great ape evolutionary history. They split into different species about 1.7 million years ago. Some of the distinctions between chimpanzee ...

We are analyzing several whole genome sequences of each species. We intend to confirm the hypothesized phylogenetic relationships, identify regions of the genome that are under positive selection, as ...

A new, high-quality bonobo genome assembly has been constructed. It is allowing scientists to more accurately compare the bonobo genome to that of other great apes - the gorilla, orangutan, chimpanzee ...