About the Authors

Polina Perelman

Current address: Laboratory of Cytogenetics of Animals, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia

Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Warren E. Johnson

Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Christian Roos

Affiliation Gene Bank of Primates and Primate Genetics Laboratory, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany

Hector N. Seuánez

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Instituto Nacional de Câncer and Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Julie E. Horvath

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Anthropology and Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Miguel A. M. Moreira

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Instituto Nacional de Câncer and Department of Genetics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Bailey Kessing

Affiliation SAIC–Frederick, Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Joan Pontius

Affiliation SAIC–Frederick, Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Melody Roelke

Affiliation SAIC–Frederick, Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Yves Rumpler

Affiliation Physiopathologie et Médecine Translationnelle, Faculté de Médecine, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

Maria Paula C. Schneider

Affiliation Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil

Artur Silva

Affiliation Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil

Stephen J. O'Brien

Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Jill Pecon-Slattery

slatterJ@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute–Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPS. Performed the experiments: PP HNS JEH MAMM MPCS AS JPS. Analyzed the data: PP WEJ JPS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PP WEJ CR HNS JEH MAMM BK JP MR YR MPCS AS SJO JPS. Wrote the paper: PP WEJ CR HNS JEH MAMM JP MR MPCS AS SJO JPS. Implemented, supervised, and directed research project: JPS. Conducted phylogenetic and statistical analyses: JPS. Curated DNA samples and DNA sequences: PP. Performed BEAST analysis: WEJ.