Primate Tree Essay

Based on the results of the BLAST for the first unknown species only the first hit Perodicticus potto located in the rain forests in Africa with a pairwise identity of 100% has a high enough percentage indicative of the same species. It is therefore likely that this species belongs to an already known species and is not a new founded one. For the second unknown species the results indicate that all of the results including the top hit Cercopithecus pogonias nigripe of Western Central Africa had pairwise percentages of around 92% indicating it likely a closely related species and not the same species. The third unknown species BLAST results indicated from the first hit Pan troglodytes troglodytes of Central Africa and all the subsequent results were 100-99.80% indicating a very high likelihood of them being the same species.
I selected the outgroup Northern treeshrew Tupaia belangeri after investigating the primate lineage in a phylogenetic tree to determine the closest next level of ordering above primates. I wanted to ensure the closest relation to the primate species to allow for the highest
We are able to compare our constructed tree to the established primate tree to evaluate the validity of our tree. Looking at the placement of the species this fits quite accurately with the traditional placement of the primate phylogenetic tree. What we can interpret from the tree is that unknown species 2 is highly likely to be a new primate species but unknown species 1 and 3 are likely to not be new species of primates. This is supported by the separate lineage of species 2 whereas species 1 and 3 both have 100% bootstrap support intervals to their placement. However although this is likely species 2 has only a 75.16% result for the clade however the approximately 92% pairwise identity gives this statement more