Christian Roos

TL;DR: The resolution of the primate phylogeny provides an essential evolutionary framework with far-reaching applications including: human selection and adaptation, global emergence of zoonotic diseases, mammalian comparative genomics, primate taxonomy, and conservation of endangered species.

TL;DR: The authors provided new genomic sequence (,8 Mb) from 186 primates representing 61 (,90%) of the described genera, and included outgroup species from Dermoptera, Scandentia, and Lagomorpha.

TL;DR: Raising global scientific and public awareness of the plight of the world’s primates and the costs of their loss to ecosystem health and human society is imperative.

TL;DR: The assembly and analysis of a northern white-cheeked gibbon genome is presented and the propensity for a gibbon-specific retrotransposon (LAVA) to insert into chromosome segregation genes and alter transcription by providing a premature termination site is described, suggesting a possible molecular mechanism for the genome plasticity of the gibbon lineage.

TL;DR: It is concluded that strepsirrhines originated in Africa and that Madagascar and Asia were colonized by respective single immigration events.