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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Ecol. 2010 Nov 3;19(24):5332–5344. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04888.x

Fig. 3. Neighbor-joining phylogeny of chimpanzee complete mitochondrial genome sequences.

Fig. 3

Blood and fecal DNA results from this study (underlined) are compared with previously-published complete mitochondrial genome sequences from chimpanzees of known subspecies (Stone et al. in press) and that of the chimpanzee reference sequence (panTro2). Based on the estimated phylogeny, the chimpanzees in this study have western chimpanzee (P. t. verus) matrilineal ancestry, as expected. Nucleotide sequence distances (Δ) are given for each same-individual pair of samples. There are no nucleotide sequence differences between the mitochondrial genomes of the matched fecal DNA and blood DNA samples of each chimpanzee. The neighbor-joining phylogeny (of evolutionary distances computed using the Maximum Composite Likelihood method; positions containing gaps were eliminated) was estimated using the MEGA4 software (Tamura et al. 2007).