Worley, Kim C.Lorente-Galdós, Belén, 1981-Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-Wilson, Richard K.The Marmoset Genome Sequencing and Analysis Consortium2015-06-162015-06-162014The Marmoset Genome Sequencing and Analysis Consortium. The common marmoset genome provides insight into primate biology and evolution. Nature Genetics. 2014;46:850-7. DOI: 10.1038/ng.30421061-4036http://hdl.handle.net/10230/23834We report the whole-genome sequence of the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). The 2.26-Gb genome of a female marmoset was assembled using Sanger read data (6×) and a whole-genome shotgun strategy. A first analysis has permitted comparison with the genomes of apes and Old World monkeys and the identification of specific features that might contribute to the unique biology of this diminutive primate, including genetic changes that may influence body size, frequent twinning and chimerism. We observed positive selection in growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor genes (growth pathways), respiratory complex I genes (metabolic pathways), and genes encoding immunobiological factors and proteases (reproductive and immunity pathways). In addition, both protein-coding and microRNA genes related to reproduction exhibited evidence of rapid sequence evolution. This genome sequence for a New World monkey enables increased power for comparative analyses among available primate genomes and facilitates biomedical research application.application/pdfeng© Nature Publishing Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material.Evolució molecularPolimorfisme genèticinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.3042info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess