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Northern Greater Galago

Northern Greater Galago

Taxobox
name = Northern Greater GalagoMSW3 Groves|pages=126]
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = Butynski, T. & Members of the Primate Specialist Group | year = 2000 | title = Otolemur garnettii | id = 15644 | downloaded = 2006-11-20]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
subordo = Strepsirrhini
infraordo = Lorisiformes
familia = Galagidae
genus = "Otolemur"
species = "O. garnettii"
binomial = "Otolemur garnettii"
binomial_authority = (Ogilby, 1838)

The Northern Greater Galago ("Otolemur garnettii"), also known as Garnett's Greater Galago, is a prosimian primate endemic to Africa.

A low-coverage genomic sequence of the Northern Greater Galago, was completed in 2006. As a 'primitive' primate, the sequence is particularly useful in bridging the sequences of higher primates (macaque, chimp, human) to close non-primates such as rodents. The current 2x coverage is not sufficient to create a full genome assembly, but will provide comparative data across most of the human assembly.

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