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- The Javan gibbon (Hylobates moloch) is an endangered species found only in western and central Java, Indonesia, making it one of the rarest gibbons.
- Gibbons belong to the Hylobatidae family, which has four genera with varying chromosome counts from 38 to 52, though the reasons behind this variation are not well understood due to limited genomic data.
- The study presents the first detailed genome assembly for H. moloch, utilizing various advanced sequencing techniques, providing a crucial resource for future comparative genomics research in primates.
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The Javan gibbon, Hylobates moloch, is an endangered gibbon species restricted to the forest remnants of western and central Java, Indonesia, and one of the rarest of the Hylobatidae family. Hylobatids consist of 4 genera (Holoock, Hylobates, Symphalangus, and Nomascus) that are characterized by different numbers of chromosomes, ranging from 38 to 52. The underlying cause of this karyotype plasticity is not entirely understood, at least in part, due to the limited availability of genomic data. Here we present the first scaffold-level assembly for H. moloch using a combination of whole-genome Illumina short reads, 10X Chromium linked reads, PacBio, and Oxford Nanopore long reads and proximity-ligation data. This Hylobates genome represents a valuable new resource for comparative genomics studies in primates.
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