FIG. 3.—

Phylogenetic analysis of marmoset α-satellite sequences. We used the Neighbor-Joining method (ClustalW) to construct the phylogenetic tree of alphoid monomers extracted from Callithrix jacchus (CJA), Papio anubis (PAN), Macaca mulatta (MMU), and Homo sapiens (HSA). We selected 417 monomeres from CJA (that cluster into 7 sets) and 10 from PAN, MMU, and HSA each. Bootstrap values (n = 100 replicates) are also indicated on the branches that support the evolutionary separation of marmoset alphoids from the human and Old World monkey α-satellite.