Multicolor Karyotyping of Six Old World Monkey Species

• Suto Yumiko

• Ishida Takafumi

  Department of Anthropology, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo

• Hirai Momoki

  Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

Abstract

By multiplex fluorescence in situ hybridization (M-FISH) that enables the simultaneous identification of 24 human chromosomes, we studied chromosomal homologies between humans (Homo sapiens, 2n=46) and 6 species of Old World monkey, namely, the vervet monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops, 2n=60), patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas, 2n=54), hanuman langur (Semnopithecus entellus, 2n=44), cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis, 2n=42), stump-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides, 2n=42) and hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas, 2n=42). Individual human chromosomes were found to correspond to either one or two chromosomes of each monkey species without any detectable complex translocation involving more than 2 chromosomes. Based on chromosomal correspondences among these species, we propose a hypothetical karyotype phylogeny.

Journal

• CYTOLOGIA

  CYTOLOGIA 68 (4), 431-436, 2003

  Japan Mendel Society, International Society of Cytology

Keywords

• M-FISH
• Old World monkey
• karyotype evolution

Details

• CRID: 1390282679082560512
• NII Article ID: 10012477076
• NII Book ID: AA00622764
• DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.68.431
• ISSN: 13487019
• ISSN: 00114545
• Text Lang: en
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