The orang-utan genome has been sequenced from five sumatran orang-utan and five bornean orang-utan and indicates that orang-utan split from the other apes about 400,000 years ago,the genome contains over 3 gb of genetic sequences.
The analysis suggest that the orang-utan genome has undergone fewer genomic rearrangements than the human and chimpanzee genome from whom orang-utan supposedly split about 12-16 million years ago.
Sunday 30 January 2011
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