(Below N is a link to NCBI taxonomic web page and E link to ESTHER at designed phylum.) > cellular organisms: NE > Eukaryota: NE > Opisthokonta: NE > Metazoa: NE > Eumetazoa: NE > Bilateria: NE > Deuterostomia: NE > Chordata: NE > Craniata: NE > Vertebrata: NE > Gnathostomata: NE > Teleostomi: NE > Euteleostomi: NE > Sarcopterygii: NE > Dipnotetrapodomorpha: NE > Tetrapoda: NE > Amniota: NE > Mammalia: NE > Theria: NE > Eutheria: NE > Boreoeutheria: NE > Euarchontoglires: NE > Primates: NE > Haplorrhini: NE > Simiiformes: NE > Catarrhini: NE > Cercopithecoidea: NE > Cercopithecidae: NE > Colobinae: NE > Rhinopithecus: NE > Rhinopithecus roxellana: NE
LegendThis sequence has been compared to family alignement (MSA) red => minority aminoacid blue => majority aminoacid color intensity => conservation rate title => sequence position(MSA position)aminoacid rate Catalytic site Catalytic site in the MSA MGENAAPGLISELKLAVPWGHITAKAWGSLQGPPVLCLHGWLDNANSFDR LIPLLPQDFYYVAMDFGGHGLSSHYSPGVPYYQQTFVSEIRRVVAALKWN QFSILGHSFGEYTDQQPHGPGFSCIFPEMVNKLILLDSPLLLLESNEVEN LLTYKRRAIEHMLQVEASQEPSSVLSLKQLLQRLLKTNSHLNEECGELLL QRGTTKVATGLVLNRDQRISWPENSVDLVSRELYAHSIRKLQAHVLSLGS SGHTSPHTLSLLQRFQFVEIPGNHYVHMKEPQHVANIISSFLQRKHTLTA
Colobines are a unique group of Old World monkeys that principally eat leaves and seeds rather than fruits and insects. We report the sequencing at 146x coverage, de novo assembly and analyses of the genome of a male golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) and resequencing at 30x coverage of three related species (Rhinopithecus bieti, Rhinopithecus brelichi and Rhinopithecus strykeri). Comparative analyses showed that Asian colobines have an enhanced ability to derive energy from fatty acids and to degrade xenobiotics. We found evidence for functional evolution in the colobine RNASE1 gene, encoding a key secretory RNase that digests the high concentrations of bacterial RNA derived from symbiotic microflora. Demographic reconstructions indicated that the profile of ancient effective population sizes for R. roxellana more closely resembles that of giant panda rather than its congeners. These findings offer new insights into the dietary adaptations and evolutionary history of colobine primates.