Abstract
Callicebus is a complex genus of neotropical primates thought to include 29 or more species. Currently, the genus is divided into 5 species groups: donacophilus, cupreus, moloch, torquatus and personatus. However, the phylogenetic relationships among the species are still poorly understood. This genus is karyotypically diverse and shows extensive variation in diploid number (2n = 16 to 50). To foster a better understanding of the chromosomal diversities and phylogenetic relationships among the species of Callicebus, we performed a chromosome-painting analysis on the Callicebus personatus genome using human probes, and compared the resulting hybridization map to those of previously mapped titi species. We detected 38 hybridization signals per haploid autosomal set of C. personatus. Few ancestral syntenies were conserved without rearrangement, but 4 human associations (HSA20/13, 3c/8b, 1b/1c and 21/3a/15a/14) were demonstrated to be apomorphic traits for C. persona tus. G-banding suggested that these associations are shared with C. nigrifrons and C. coimbrai (personatus group), while C. personatus is linked with C. pallescens (donacophilus group) by 2 synapomorphies: HSA10b/11 (submetacentric) and an inversion of HSA1a.
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